Causes

Currently, the majority of Haitians lack access to quality education, a prerequisite for sustained social and economic development. Educational System yields the lowest total rate in the education realm of the Western Hemisphere. Haiti’s literacy rate of about 61% (64.3% for males and 57.3% for females) is below the 90% average literacy rate for Latin American and Caribbean countries. The country faces shortages in educational supplies and qualified teachers. The rural population is less educated than the urban. The 2010 Haiti earthquake exacerbated the already constrained parameters on Haiti’s educational system by destroying infrastructure and displacing 50–90% of the students, depending on locale.

But it also presented an excellent opportunity to address the problems of the most dysfunctional education sector in Haiti. Despite the improvement, student enrolment and school access problems remain widespread. 

WHY YOU NEED TO LEND HELP

Although the Haiti educational sector is responsibly managed by the Ministre de l’Éducation Nationale et de la Formation Professional (MENFP), the Ministry seems limited in its ability to improve the quality of education in Haiti singlehandedly as it provides some meager funds to support the public school. Consequently, the Illuminating Lives Foundation has become a substitute for governmental public investment in education to help give the children a better future through constant and sustainable education support with the help of our donors worldwide. Illuminating Lives Foundation seeks your kind financial interventions to help implement our priority action plan.

WE AIM TO:

• Help hundreds of thousands of children to have deserved quality education from kindergarten to tertiary, help the dropped-outs continue learning, and support remote learning in from underprivileged rural and urban areas by building schools and organizing distance learning programs.
• Provide adequate training for teachers and provide them with essential teaching aids to improve sound education.
• Provide financial support for the families of the most poverty-struck students to help them afford further learning and proper nutrition.
• Provide students with special educational needs, including new school uniforms, shoes, bags, textbooks, notebooks, and more.
• Provide school kits for teachers.
• Give psychosocial support to students, teachers, and parents regularly.