Lide Haiti

To accompany Haitian girls in underserved communities as they improve their learning, health and well-being through art-centered educational programs in safe and nurturing environments.

A Haiti where every girl can play, create, learn, and lead.

Goal One: Improve creative, educational, and health outcomes for all participants

Goal Two: Broaden organizational partnerships and reach

Goal Three: Expand Parent and Community Engagement To Foster Community Ownership

We have hired a highly experienced leadership and capacity building consultant that provides coaching to our Country Director and our Senior Management Team weekly. We also have a very experienced consultant working with our Interim Executive Director on a weekly basis. We have extensive staff capacity building and training as well that includes topics such as child protection, arts instruction, etc.

In the last year or two, Haiti has faced shocking national security, political, and economic threats, yet our amazing team at Lidè has illustrated powerful dedication and creative flexibility to achieve dramatic expansion against all odds. Throughout this time of tests, we have become stronger, more hopeful, and, thanks to the generosity of a growing international donor base, more sustainable than ever. Amidst this backdrop, we began serving 50% more young women and increased our scholarship offerings nearly tenfold. With over a thousand girls across Haiti participating actively in the program, 30 program facilitators, a thousand meals served every week, and 8 program locations, we are poised for unprecedented impact. In the face of so much unrest in the country, we have also learned to better adapt to unexpected challenges. Amidst lockdown in the fall of 2022, we found new ways to be productive and keep our programs and offices open. For example, in many of our locations, staff would go to meet participants after school and accompany them to Lidè classes to ensure their safety. Lidè facilitators in the communities would also offer their own homes to receive participants for activities. And, staff that lived within the communities would offer consistent tutoring to the girls. As a result, the relational bond between Lidè and the parents and families of the girls also became much stronger, inspiring a core group of engaged parents to become more active in our work. We have also adapted to the challenges in Haiti where fuel was blocked for many months, and have built a 400 gallon fuel tank to prepare for fuel shortages in the future.