Haiti Now is dedicated to empowering girls living in domestic servitude to overcome poverty and exploitation to
Country Of Origin
United States
Country of Operation
Haiti
Strenghts
We are focused and specialized on children in domestic servitude.
We designed our programs with specific strategies to meet our outcomes and KPIs.
Long Term Plan
We are now fundraising to build the Residential School, a purpose-built facility we plan to build in three phases. The facility will incorporate safe housing, accellerated education, mental health, and business incubation.
Each girl will be enrolled in an accelerated education program with access to professionally trained teachers, books, school supplies, and computers. After graduation they will start two years of business incubation.
We will ensure high-quality work through ongoing training, psychological support, and daily documentation by the staff. Our Residential School will level the playing field for Restavek girls. Here, we will create opportunities for them to take control of their own lives. In this way, they can contribute to their families and communities.
Ongoing Projects
We are now fundraising to build the Residential School, a purpose-built facility we plan to build in three phases. The facility will incorporate safe housing, accelerated education, mental health, and business incubation.
Each girl will be enrolled in an accelerated education program with access to professionally trained teachers, books, school supplies, and computers. After graduation they will start two years of business incubation.
Description
Our Vision: To see girls in domestic servitude overcome extreme poverty, heal emotional trauma, and live rewarding lives.
Restavek girls need specialized programs to overcome poverty, exploitation, and trauma. We will provide a compassionate community, quality education, business incubation opportunities, and global citizenship skills. With these, each girl can achieve a future of economic security.
We assisted 1315+ children, 75% in servitude, 72% females, with access to education: textbooks, school supplies, some tuition, some healthcare, some vaccinations, some food, some uniforms, some advocacy etc... The most recent work was in Waf Jeremie, La Saline.
Weaknesses
We have very limited ability to influence the forces destabilizing Haiti. Foreign influence, geopolitical conflicts, and foreign corporate interests are all forces at the core of why there is extreme poverty sending children into domestic servitude. While we are invested in meaningful value for our recipients as partners, we know we will never be able to end "domestic servitude", we believe all U.S. NGOs should voice clear concerns to lawmakers in Washington to change the policies affecting Haiti negatively. We believe a unified diaspora is the most important voice to bring meaningful change to foreign policy. Each one of us alone is insignificant.
