The School

We fund the school directly through the Haiti Partnership Program that is an activity of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti.

$250 provides the yearly cost of the education, daily meals, uniforms and school supplies for one child.

EDUCATION CAN AND WILL SAVE LIVES.

Why Haiti?

Haiti is the poorest nation in the western hemisphere with 80% of the population unemployed.

There are few paved roads, an inadequate supply of potable water, minimal utilities, and depleted forests.

Less than 45 percent of all Haitians have access to potable water.

More than half of Haitians live on less than one dollar a day.

45% of the Haitian population is illiterate.

The life expectancy in Haiti is about 50 years.

Seventy-six percent of Haiti's children under the age of five are underweight, or suffer from stunted growth and 63 percent of Haitians are undernourished.

An estimated 7,500 lives are lost each year to AIDS in Haiti, and thousands of children have been orphaned by the epidemic.

Thousands of lives have been lost to the cholera epidemic that has raged in the overcrowded refugee camps and the countryside due to a lack of clean water and unsanitary living conditions.

After the earthquake that devastated the central part of Haiti in January, 2011 the nations of the world have been called upon to help the Haitians rebuild their country around available education, health services, and employment for all.

La Resurrection

St. Martin’s Parish and Day School’s relationship with La Resurrection School began in the spring of 1985 with Carol Hjortsberg, Day School Head, who traveled to Haiti for a meeting of the National Association of Episcopal Schools in Haiti. Carol's group of representatives toured several Haitian schools as the idea of partnerships with U.S. schools or churches was beginning to develop. Carol returned and inspired others to take on this ministry.

Marilyn Dirks wrote the diocesan coordinator in Port-au-Prince and St.Martin's was assigned to Gros Morne's La Resurrection with Pere Paul presiding as rector.

From then until now, we have remained committed to our friends in Haiti. While we cannot solve all the problems that exist in Haiti, our partnership with the students, parents, and school administrators has helped thousands of students gain a solid education, and has provided hope for their future.

We have been making a difference in that we have educated a generation with knowledge that changes lives and equips them to help take Haiti out of poverty and despair.