St Luke’s educational programs have the mission to uplift the most marginalized children, young people and adults in Haitian society. Extreme poverty, geographical location, family situation, or physical or intellectual disability block opportunity for many Haitian people to reach their full potential. To ensure a better future for them and their families, we provide them a dignified education delivered in the highest of standards possible.
St Luke’s education programs have improved the living conditions of approximately 16,000 children each year, while also creating opportunity and providing preschool, primary school, secondary education, and professional training that meets the needs of Haiti’s labor market.
Our objectives:
Socialization, Education, Certification
Include and uplift children who have been isolated or ignored by society because of their poverty, location, family situation, or physical or intellectual disability
Provide basic and accessible education to children in under-resourced communities in accordance with national and international academic standards as well as economic opportunities in Haiti.
Nourish the children of our schools, especially those who live in the toughest slums, with a daily meal, drinkable water, food kits, clothing, and hygiene items.
Incorporate sports, cultural, artistic, extra-curricular and professional activities in the academic programs of our schools (such as genius competitions, talent competitions, and summer camps) to raise funds and to ensure that all our students experience success.
Incorporate technology and experimentation into our training, with practical sessions in laboratories or field trips.
Facilitate post-secondary studies (career counseling & guidance, professional work experience, scholarships and grants for university studies in Haiti or abroad).
Prioritize intercultural and intellectual exchanges with trips in foreign countries.
Encourage entrepreneurship and identifying internships for our students in paid positions and employment.
Provide healthcare to the children and the communities in the vicinity of our schools.
Support the parents of our children and the communities (mostly in rural areas) through agricultural and farming activities, housing, donations of solar lamps and street-lighting in the communities.
Other Activities
Among other institutional and community activities, we distribute pasta, hygiene kits, and Christmas gifts; organize trips to the beach, field trips, sports, artistic and cultural activities, and genius competitions between classes and schools; create potable water distribution kiosks; donate solar lamps and fertilizers; and build social housing and lighting projects in communities; among many other activities.
After seeing success with children and young adults move from life on the street to education and employment, St Luke expanded our programs.
Our next objective became supporting the students who had completed their second level of school in Haiti’s academic structure. We realized that some of those living in the poorest neighborhoods had been forced back to the streets, and engaged in dangerous activities simply to survive. In response, shortly after the 2010 earthquake, the St Luke Foundation established a Secondary School Center designed for students coming from the West Departments of Haiti. These students came from impoverished areas that did not have secondary or professional schools and thus had no opportunity to complete their studies.