New Life for Haiti

Descriptions of the Organization’s programs:
1. Children Sponsorship – New Life for Haiti’s child sponsorship program provides the following to each of the over 300 children in the program each school year: private school tuition, uniforms, 2 pairs of shoes each, books, school supplies, vitamins, & a hot meal once/week at school. Children at two of the seven schools New Life for Haiti has built & supports also get a supplemental snack at school on the 4 days of the week they do not receive the hot meal.
2. School Construction – New Life for Haiti has built seven schools. The two most recent school construction projects that took place were the Village of Hope Orphanage School – Marfranc campus (built in 2018) & a 2-classroom addition constructed on the campus of the School of Hope – Rivye Mawo campus (under construction now in 2019.) A well was also dug & capped at this campus in December of 2018/January of 2019, & campus improvements are ongoing (fencing, bathroom facilities, etc.).
3. Feeding Program – New Life for Haiti supplies food aid to the following groups of people in Grand Anse River valley of Haiti:
a. 35 elderly people living at the home for the elderly in Marfranc – weekly they are supplied with beans, rice, oil & spaghetti.
b. 24 orphaned children & the 5 women that care for them at the Village of Hope Orphanage – all food is provided to them on an ongoing basis, daily.
c. Approximately 1000 students are fed a hot meal weekly at six different schools, during the 9 months of the school year.
4. Teacher Training – Once per year in June, a team of American teachers leads a week-long seminar for Haitian teachers to instruct them in educational methodology & up-to-date instructional methods.
5. Goat Breeding project – NLH runs a sustainable pay-it-forward goat breeding project in which local families are provided with female goats & given training to care for them & breed them.
6. Annual Medical Clinic – Once per year in November NLH holds a medical clinic where American doctors & nurses provide emergency, chronic, & illness care, as well as simple surgical care to several hundred patients.
7. Orphanage – NLH opened the Village of Hope Orphanage in September 2018, which now houses 24 orphans.
8. Disaster relief – After the 2010 earthquake & the 2016 hurricane, NLH provided disaster relief in the form of: food, tin, tarps, animals, seeds.
9. Medical/dental care for serious cases – From time to time NLH provides financial support for medical care to people in the Grand Anse River valley in the form of special schools (for the deaf), surgery (for club feet and broken bones), serious illnesses (cholera, typhoid), & for dental emergency care.
10. Scholarships for higher education – NLH has a program that provides university & secondary school tuition assistance for students aging out of our child sponsorship program.

It is the MISSION of New Life for Haiti to give children a chance at a future, to meet the urgent needs of families, to foster new economic opportunities, and to influence cultural thinking toward a sustainable change within the Grande Anse River Valley on the southern peninsula of Haiti, while acting as the hands and feet of Jesus to bring the life-giving and hopeful message of Christ.

Our strategy is to build relationships with, train, and equip Haitian people in the Grand Anse River valley/Marfranc and surrounding communities to carry out the mission of New Life for Haiti, so that it is sustainable both in our absence and into the future. We do that by training and mentoring the following groups of people: teachers, pastors, builders, subsistence farmers, and parents to carry out programs that support our missions in homes, schools, businesses, clinics, and an orphanage. When we go into a new community, we sit down with the leaders there to discuss and assess their needs. Then we work together with that community to meet those needs. Needs include things such as schools, churches, clean water, medical care, etc. Our strategy has always been to build trustworthy and quality relationships with the Haitian people we work with so that we can understand the best ways to help and solve problems.

Our organization has spent 13 years building relationships and establishing trust and respect in the area in which we work. This has allowed us to find the best, most trustworthy and hardworking people in the community to train, mentor and employ. We have an excellent engineer and construction crews who do quality work. We have proper oversight in place. We have strong Haitian leaders in administrative roles who lead with integrity. We have a supportive base of U.S. donors and sponsors who are committed to the ongoing support of the children and families to whom we minister.

We have also established, under the leadership of our Haitian Field Director, several connections in communities and cities in Haiti and a network that can be activated to ensure smooth delivery of materials to and around Haiti and the perpetuation of our ministry in the Grand Anse River valley.

Descriptions of the Organization’s programs:

1. Children Sponsorship – New Life for Haiti’s child sponsorship program provides the following to each of the over 300 children in the program each school year: private school tuition, uniforms, 2 pairs of shoes each, books, school supplies, vitamins, & a hot meal once/week at school. Children at two of the seven schools New Life for Haiti has built & supports also get a supplemental snack at school on the 4 days of the week they do not receive the hot meal.
2. School Construction – New Life for Haiti has built seven schools. The two most recent school construction projects that took place were the Village of Hope Orphanage School – Marfranc campus (built in 2018) & a 2-classroom addition constructed on the campus of the School of Hope – Rivye Mawo campus (under construction now in 2019.) A well was also dug & capped at this campus in December of 2018/January of 2019, & campus improvements are ongoing (fencing, bathroom facilities, etc.).
3. Feeding Program – New Life for Haiti supplies food aid to the following groups of people in Grand Anse River valley of Haiti:
a. 35 elderly people living at the home for the elderly in Marfranc – weekly they are supplied with beans, rice, oil & spaghetti.
b. 24 orphaned children & the 5 women that care for them at the Village of Hope Orphanage – all food is provided to them on an ongoing basis, daily.
c. Approximately 1000 students are fed a hot meal weekly at six different schools, during the 9 months of the school year.
4. Teacher Training – Once per year in June, a team of American teachers leads a week-long seminar for Haitian teachers to instruct them in educational methodology & up-to-date instructional methods.
5. Goat Breeding project – NLH runs a sustainable pay-it-forward goat breeding project in which local families are provided with female goats & given training to care for them & breed them.
6. Annual Medical Clinic – Once per year in November NLH holds a medical clinic where American doctors & nurses provide emergency, chronic, & illness care, as well as simple surgical care to several hundred patients.
7. Orphanage – NLH opened the Village of Hope Orphanage in September 2018, which now houses 24 orphans.
8. Disaster relief – After the 2010 earthquake & the 2016 hurricane, NLH provided disaster relief in the form of: food, tin, tarps, animals, seeds.
9. Medical/dental care for serious cases – From time to time NLH provides financial support for medical care to people in the Grand Anse River valley in the form of special schools (for the deaf), surgery (for club feet and broken bones), serious illnesses (cholera, typhoid), & for dental emergency care.
10. Scholarships for higher education – NLH has a program that provides university & secondary school tuition assistance for students aging out of our child sponsorship program.

What's Next? New Life for Haiti will be building a church and medical clinic in 2020 in the community of Rivye Mawo.