Program areas at New Life for Haiti
Children sponsorship - New Life for Haiti's child sponsorship program provides the following to each of the over 340 children in the program each school year: private school tuition, uniforms, shoes, books, school supplies, and a hot meal once/week. At the largest and poorest school, students also receive a supplemental snack at school on the 4 days of the week they do not receive the hot meal. New Life for Haiti has built seven schools. Most recently, the school of hope was built in 2016 and the village of hope orphanage school was built in 2018. A 2-classroom addition was constructed on the campus of the school of hope rivye mawo campus in 2018. A well was also dug and capped at this campus in january of 2019, and campus improvements have included fencing and bathroom facilities. A third addition to the school of hope was constructed in 2020. A fourth addition (7th and 8th grade building) is slated to open for the 2022/23 school year.
Feeding programs - New Life for Haiti supplies food aid to the following groups of people in grand anse river valley of Haiti: a. 36 elderly people in three different churches in marfranc weekly. They are supplied with beans, rice, oil and spaghetti. B. 19 orphans and the 4 women that care for them at the village of hope orphanage. All food is provided to them on an ongoing basis, daily. C. approximately 1,020 students are fed a hot meal weekly at seven different schools, during the 9 months of the school year. D. at christmas time, a meal is provided for the disabled and elderly in the marfranc community.
The village of hope home for children the village of hope currently houses 19 children who are either orphaned or have been permanently displaced from one remaining parent. Children ages 4-18 at the village of hope are provided with all services typically associated with child rearing: housing, food, clothing, education at an on-site school, medical care, social services, church, recreation services, mentoring, and the care of loving attentive adults.
Sustainable agriculture programs - nlh runs a sustainable pay-it-forward goat breeding project in which local families are provided with female goats and given training to care for them and breed them. Nlh also works with local agronomists with seed distribution programs that allow local subsistence farmers to provide for their families and supplement their income.
Clean water programs New Life for Haiti has collaboratively built wells in three communities and cisterns in two communities. Nlh also distributes family water filters.
Community health education community health education is offered in the rural communities on a variety of topics by a nursing coordinator and local community health agents.
Disaster relief - after the 2010 earthquake and the 2016 hurricane, and the 2021 earthquake, nlh provided disaster relief in the form of: food, tin, tarps, animals, seeds.
Scholarships for higher education - nlh has a program that provides tuition, housing, transportation and food assistance for students coming out of our child sponsorship program, wishing to continue their education through 11th and 12th grade (secondary school) and at the college/university levels.