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LIGHT FOR ALL501(c)3

The LiFA Mission:

• To support and help lead rural Haitian communityefforts to both strengthen schools and build social structures.

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  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.

Our Vision

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Medor*

LiFA project locations

Lhomond* Marbial*Vieux Bourg *

Mirebalais*

Bassin Bleu*

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Challenges facing Rural Haitian Schools

• Haitian Education System• Rural Education• Financial• Cultural

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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

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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

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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

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Cultural

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

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How LiFA Overcomes the Challenges

Phase I• Academic Tracking• Administrative and Finance• Community Building

Phase II• Self Sufficiency

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Phase I: Academic Tracking

• Drop out Rate

• Enrollment

• Attendance

• Test Scores

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Phase I: Admin and Finance

• 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)

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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

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Phase II: Self-Sufficiency

• LiFA provision of resources to provide local funding for school

• LiFA sponsorship incrementally decreases as local school responsibility increases

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LiFA and the MDGs 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

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LiFA and the MDGs Goal 3

• Promote gender equality

LiFA

• Enrollment is 50% girls in all schools

• National honor students from LiFA – both girls

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Students with teacher

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LiFA and the MDGs 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

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Water Pasteurizer

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LiFA and the MDGs Goal 7• Ensure

environmental sustainability

LiFA• Solar cookers /

pasteurizers prevent deforestation

• Environmental stewardship taught at school

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Solar Oven(Train the Trainer)

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LiFA Seeks Partners

Financial resources Guidance

Input

Critical evaluation

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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