Hope for Haiti

Ile-a-Vache Enterprises

Ile-a-Vache Enterprises (IAVE) is a startup incubator that promotes local 
innovation and encourages the development of locally-run businesses.  Hope 
for Haiti established IAVE to provide grants and interest-free loans to local 
entrepreneurs to promote economic development and job creation.  In addition, 
IAVE provides business training and consulting services to grant and loan 
recipients to ensure long-term success.

• Business education and training programs
  
• Marketing and networking assistance
  
• Access to technology
  
• Accounting and financial management assistance
  
• Access to credit/grants
  
• Management consultant services
  

Grand-Sable Kindergarten and Elementary School
Hope for Haiti has been working with the administration of Ecole du St. Espirit 
de Grande Sable since 2006.  At that time the small school in Grand-Sable, Ile-
a-Vache provided preschool through second grade classes for 35 children 
whose families did not have the means to pay the costs associated with private 
or public education.  Because there are no other schools in Grand Sable most 
children have to walk up to three hours a day to schools in other villages.  Many 
of these children have poor attendance because they cannot make it to school 
on days when the weather is bad and they are unable to cross one of the many 
waterways on the island.  Ecole du St. Espirit de Grande Sable was a one room 
school with a dirt floor, palm frond walls and a tin roof destroyed during the 
2007 hurricane season.

In 2009 Hope for Haiti built a five classroom school for the community of Grand 
Sable.  The new Ecole du St. Espirit provides free education to 150 
impoverished children.   Although the new school has increased enrollment by 
nearly fivefold, over 100 children were not able to attend the school once it 
reached full capacity.  In order to provide an education to these children an 
additional five classrooms will be added to the school accommodating 300 
children in total.

To contribute to the school construction project, just click on any of the PayPal 
donate buttons to make a donation.  All donations are tax-deductible.

Support a child's education.
Many children cannot afford the costs of education in Haiti because the 
average family makes less than $1 a day.  The government does not provide 
adequate funding for public schools and most families cannot afford the costs 
of private education.  Hope for Haiti assists families who do not have the means 
to educate their children. We believe the best way to help fight poverty is to 
help the poor help themselves through educational opportunities.  For as little 
as $50 you can support a child's education for one year.  For more information, 
please see our current projects.