Our club has raised $25,000 for the design and construction of the building through various fundraisers starting in 2019. We engaged sponsors in online wine and beer tastings, continuously advertised the need for help in the Rotarian world, translating in many individual donations and successfully engaged with Rotary International and various matching grants.
Our E-Club’s global presence enabled us to work directly hand-in-hand with our partners in Haiti to ensure the project’s success. As all were helping together, contributing with ideas, plans, and sourcing locally, we were able to deliver the building at the lowest cost possible.
The building was delivered 2020-2021,
once again engaging strongly with the local community, partners in Haiti and across the world.
In July 2020 a very nice ground break ceremony officially opened the construction of the school. In September 2020, the building was inaugurated temporarily, so it could be used for the school year 2020-2021. Additional work was delivered on an ongoing basis, e.g. the renovation of the school’s office in Summer 2021, the terrasse and many more.
A big thank you to Albert Davis, Past President of Rotary e-Club of Wall Street New York, who lives in Haiti, for taking the role as Project Chair and working directly with Fresly and engineer Rubens to execute this project.
We are also thankful for Sfaira Foundation which supported the construction of a new building for this school, doubling as a community center.
Now, we can further improve on our
Mission: Educate children in need free of charge, and
Vision: Contribute in a new generation of Haitian trough education
Every school year we graduate minimum 10 students for secondary level. This school year 12 will be graduated. For the school year starting in September 2024, we project to receive up to 70 kids.
The Rotary E-Club of Wall Street has a longstanding, fruitful, relationship with the local community members and Rotary Clubs of Haiti that transcends borders.
Our involvement with this beautiful country started with the Haiti Entrepreneurship Camp, and has since led to other initiatives like responding to Hurricane Matthew, supporting orphanages, and most recently partnering with a Haitian entrepreneur to protect vulnerable communities around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today, nearly half of Haiti’s population is illiterate, and only 1 in 20 will ever graduate high school. Fresly Toussaint – a longtime friend of our club- is taking action.
Fresly had volunteered with our Entrepreneurship Camp while it was active. This year, he proposed a project to build a school. Together, we will ensure more children in Haiti access to education and help build a pipeline of future innovators from the country.
Our E-Club’s global presence is enabling us to work directly hand-in-hand with our partners in Haiti to ensure the project’s success. We send a big thank you to Albert Davis, an incoming Board Member who lives in Haiti, for taking on the role as Project Chair and working directly with Fresly and engineer Rubens to execute this project.
We are thankful for Sfaira Foundation which will support the construction of a new building for this school, doubling as a community center.
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