LI GHT F OR A LL 501(c)3

1. LIGHT FOR ALL501(c)3 The LiFA Mission: • To support and help lead rural Haitian communityefforts to both strengthen schools and build social structures.

2. Our Vision LiFA’s vision is to offer hope and opportunity to currently declining rural Haitian primary schools through a LiFA sponsorship program. LiFA offer resources for academic success, assistance in health and safety concerns, financial and administrative training and leadership in community-building. LiFA’s goal is to reverse the academic decline and empower the community’s social structure to eventually sustain its own education system.

3. LiFA project locations BassinBleu * * Medor * Mirebalais * * Vieux Bourg * Marbial Lhomond

4. Challenges facing Rural Haitian Schools • Haitian Education System • Rural Education • Financial • Cultural

5. Educational System • Neglect of public education since Francois Duvalier’s government(1950s) • Lack of standardization among public, private and religious schools • Three tiered school system: elite private, government, other private

6. Rural Education • Difficulty in attracting and retaining teachers due to remote locale and salaries • Classrooms are crowded and unsafe • Need not obvious to government or to NGO’s due to remote locale • School location may require significant daily journey for each student

7. Financial • Subsistence farming communities vulnerable to natural disasters • Cost for books and uniform prohibitive for families • School untrained in financial management • School poorly administered and deeply in debt

8. Cultural • Inclination to keep children home for short-term farming help

9. How LiFA Overcomes the Challenges Phase I • Academic Tracking • Administrative and Finance • Community Building Phase II • Self Sufficiency

10. Drop out Rate Enrollment Attendance Test Scores Phase I: Academic Tracking

11. Debt elimination Teachers quality improved through training Teacher retention through current and equitable pay Providing appropriate student / teacher ratio Record keeping Providing for health and safety of students (financial assistance for purchase of supplies) Phase I: Admin and Finance

12. Phase I:Community Building • Training families to trust the institution of the school • Enabling families to prioritize education / organize PTA • Bringing unity and consensus to community around education goals

13. Phase II: Self-Sufficiency • LiFA provision of resources to provide local funding for school • LiFA sponsorship incrementally decreases as local school responsibility increases

14. Goals 1-2 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Achieve universal primary education LiFA Provide means to escape trap of subsistence farming Work with rural, poor schools Enable maximum enrollment LiFA and the MDGs

15. Goal 3 Promote gender equality LiFA Enrollment is 50% girls in all schools National honor students from LiFA – both girls LiFA and the MDGs

16. Students with teacher

17. Goals 4-6 Reduce child mortality Improve maternal health Combat malaria, HIV/AIDs LiFA Solar pasteurizer in Lhomond Student health clinics Health education at school LiFA and the MDGs

18. Water Pasteurizer

19. Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability LiFA Solar cookers / pasteurizers prevent deforestation Environmental stewardship taught at school LiFA and the MDGs

20. Solar Oven(Train the Trainer)

21. LiFA Seeks Partners Financial resources Guidance Input Critical evaluation

22. LIGHT FOR ALLHow to contact us 3308 Stony Brook Drive Louisville, KY 40299 Phone: (502) 499-5624Fax    : (502) 499-5624 Cell : (502) 594-2290 lifaco@aol.com www.lightforall.org