Who we are

Friends of Paradis des Indiens, Inc. is a non-profit humanitarian organization created to raise funds to combat illiteracy in Grand’Anse, Haiti through education, the construction of schools, and programs that foster children's capacity to be productive adults. Learn about us

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To carry out our mission we need your help in raising the funds necessary to pay for the maintenance of the schools, the training of the teachers and all that is necessary to create a healthy learning environment for the students. Make a donation

Paradis des Indiens, video of 1 year after winning 2nd place of the BBC's World Challenge 2007

Friends of Paradis des Indiens is pleased to present the different projects it accomplished last year thanks to your generous contributions:

• A hands-on Science Lab is being build and will be ready for the 2009-2010 school year.
• All the 12 satellites mountain schools have manual skill classes (sewing, wood work, and basket-weaving)
• Classrooms were added to 10 satellite mountain schools and the 11th satellite mountain school was inaugurated in September 2008.
• A special environmental project to fight and prevent soil erosion was started.
• Construction of a water well in the main school's back yard.
• A Computer Lab is being built
• Food distribution program to feed 500 elderly villagers
• Uniforms, sneakers, clothing, blankets, toothbrush and tooth paste distributed to students
• Distribution of rain coats to teachers
• Provided assistance to those whose homes and food gardens were distroyed by the September 2008 hurricanes.

Our future goal is to add one more classroom a year to the satellite mountain schools so we can accommodate more students. This however will mean hiring more teachers and staff and improving the kitchens capacity. We also hope to add an infirmery to the main school. We are currently looking for medical supplies and equipment.

We are again hoping on your generous contribution to help us reach those goals. 100% of the funds collected go directly to meet the needs of the children.