Three flagship programs do the heaviest lifting: clean water, light after dusk, and reforestation. Behind them sits a long record of hurricane response, micro-loans, scholarships, and dozens of smaller projects. All of it run by volunteers, governed by the communities, and funded directly by donations.
Wells, solar, and reforestation are the three programs we run continuously. Every dollar that comes in moves directly into one of them.
Nearly 250,000 people now drink from wells we dug or repaired. Repairing is a fraction of the cost of digging new, so we are fixing as many as the team can reach. Communities paint the thank-you on themselves.
Fund a well repair · $1,500
Most Haitian schools have no electricity. A $1,500 solar system changes that, instantly and permanently. We also build, rebuild, and ramp, with 26 new wheelchair ramps this year alone.
Light a school · $1,500
Led by community champion Djemson, our Little Gardens program teaches children to grow their own food. We also plant trees, more than 20,000 this year, restoring deforested land.
Plant a starter garden · $100
Disaster response, micro-loans, scholarships, and the smaller projects that don't make a headline but matter to the people they reach.
After Hurricane Matthew tore through Haiti in 2016, we provided hundreds of meals, bought thousands of tools for clean-up, and shipped enough roofing material for ninety homes. The communities we served are still standing.
When Harvey flooded Houston in 2017, hundreds of residents lost mobility devices to the water. We delivered more than fifty wheelchairs to people whose chairs had been destroyed. A small thing, until you need it.
After Dorian devastated the Bahamas in 2019, we made two trips to Grand Bahama Island, established tool libraries, and worked with schools to get students back into classrooms. COVID interrupted travel, so we shifted to building sustainable systems with our partners on the ground for education and rebuilding.
Tout Moun Se Moun ("every person is a person") puts working capital in the hands of women entrepreneurs across Haiti. Ninety so far, with a one-hundred-percent repayment rate in under two years. Then the capital recycles into the next ninety.
The Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone left thousands of children without parents. We pay full scholarships for forty-eight of them every year, every grade, until they finish. Now in our third year and counting.
We pay teacher salaries when no one else will. We've built libraries, replaced walls, planted school gardens, supplied books, and added hygiene products. Whatever each school says it actually needs, that's what we fund.
In partnership with HaitiScholarships, we fundraise globally to put Haitian kids through Haitian schools. The result is twofold: students who'd otherwise stay home get an education, and Haitian teachers get paid jobs.
All-volunteer. No overhead skim, no executive pay. Choose the size of your ripple, or write your own amount on PayPal.
501(c)(3) · EIN 47-4880953 · All gifts tax-deductible