Directory Tag: Microfinance

The humanitarian aid programs established by GSF and our mission are very closely aligned - all serve the same purpose of community development. Each element of our work feeds into and from each other element - whether it’s childhood nutrition, primary education, further education grants, agricultural extension, marketable skills, small business loans, women’s services or transportation.
For instance our sailing boat, Fu Fei, is part of the microcredit small business loans, serves to transport the food supplies for the school, plus building materials, provides 4 jobs, reduces the cost of running the school, and saves fuel!
The school meals feed the children and vulnerable people in the village, assisted by the egg and vegetable programs from the agriculture service. Better nutrition then improves children’s school results. This impacts the health of the whole village. The teachers’ salaries return directly into the community, as do the microloan repayments enabling over 300 small businesses to date. Scholarships help teenagers finish grade school and attend trade schools or universities, bringing skilled workers and teachers back to the community when qualified.

Haiti Lumiere de Demain was established in 1998 by Louisner Elneus. Reflecting on the many opportunities opened to him by his own education, Mr. Elneus has committed himself to helping reduce the high rates of illiteracy in his homeland. Through Haiti Lumiere de Demain, he hopes to assist a new generation of Haitians to think for themselves and become a positive contributing member of their communities.
Haiti Lumiere de Demain's goals are to: build a system of lending libraries, support activities designed to encourage further learning beyond the classroom, provide books on a lending basis to students in primary school, provide scholarships to both teachers and students for further education.

Mission Statement:
To provide impoverished Haitians with the efficient ways to be successful – a chance, everyone deserve

Hope for Haiti focuses on education and long-term sustainable projects. We provide the foundation necessary to build self-sufficient communities. In place of short-term projects that give out food and supplies that only focus on today, we provide the necessary training and skill development to help the communities provide for themselves.

It all began in a small town called Pignon, Haiti, located 90 miles north of Port-au-Prince. In 1982, a Haitian couple, Pastor Francois Romelus and his wife, Madam, felt called to start a church. Already parents to four biological kids and busy pastoring a church, Francois and Madam began taking in orphans to live with them. The orphans grew in number and eventually an entirely separate house had to be built for all the kids to sleep in. With all those kids came the development of a school and of a sewing center. Since 1982 Francois and Madam have started a church, orphanage, sewing center and a school, all located on the same 2-acre property.