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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
www.lightforall.org