Our Goals

Our goal is to raise the funds necessary to carry out these projects. The funds raised by the Foundation will help pay for:

• Educational programs for children in 12 schools including meals, supplies, uniforms, vocational training, reforestation and scholarships.
• School payroll and teacher training, including salary of teachers, principals, manual skill courses monitors, supervisors, cooks, maintenance personnel, etc.
• Enlargement of existing schools and construction of new locals as needed.
• Adults work training programs.
• Artisans and crafts workshops including: embroidery, ceramic, wood, dry fruits, and apiculture.
• Modernization of agricultural programs consisting of grafting existing trees.
• Reforestation and establishment of protected green areas planted with trees endemic to Grand’Anse, Haiti.
• Implementation of modern techniques in apiculture.

Mission Statement

The Friends of Paradis des Indiens, Inc. is a US non-profit organization with the mission to support the schools and projects of Grand' Anse, Haiti. The foundation's goal is to create an empowered, self-sufficient community by raising funds to support education, work and modernization of the existing resources of the region.

For more information about each project please click on the project. (under construction)

History

In the past, we have informally helped the projects of Foundation Paradis des Indiens, Abricots, Haiti. We now have formalized our status to be a 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code to continue helping and to assist the funding of other projects for the region of Grand’Anse, Haiti.

Paradis des Indiens in Abricots is a humanitarian organization created to combat illiteracy, through the implementation of educational programs that not only facilitate learning but also impart real life skills to both children and adults in Abricots, Haiti.

The project Paradis des Indiens was created to serve the poorest children of Abricots, a small fishing village in the south of Haiti. The first few years, parents lined up the night before registration. However, only children between the ages of 10 and 12 could be registered due to the lack of space. These children had not attended school out of a lack of desire, but rather because they could not afford the uniforms and shoes required by the local public and parochial schools.

Today, the school system includes both the village school and 11 small mountain schools. Paradis des Indiens now supports a total of 2411 students. Aside from academic classes the students receive training in manual skills, reforestation and agricultural classes. In order to provide remunerative work for the inhabitants of the region, the founders established a number of work activities including arts and crafts, embroidery, woodworking and fruit drying. They also have a continuous project to modernize the apicultural and agricultural activities and the formation of green areas. The mission of the organization in Abricots, Haiti, is primarily to educate but the goal is to empower the people of Abricots to achieve both financial independence and self-sufficiency through entrepreneurial development.