Our work in Haiti

Shai Foundation supported the children and families in Haiti between 2012 and 2021. We started in Port au Prince in 2012, where we joined with Hope Force International, a USA based ‘first response’ charity and contributed two homes to their ‘home building’ programme.

In our team we had ministers of the gospel, poets, teachers, a doctor and three nurses. Over the two weeks we were in Haiti, we held medical clinics and treated apx 500 people across three villages. We taught health education to local people throughout the villages and held motivation sessions for the children and teachers in local schools. We painted homes in Sous Savanne, a village in Port au Prince.

In 2013 we moved to the South of the island at the request of Haitian Pastor, Samuel Metelus. Sam urged us to help the people living in the southern region of the island, as there was much need there, and very little aid or help being offered. Pastor Sam through his organisation, Progress Organisation, a non-profit NGO, worked tirelessly to help rebuild the lives of people in the Southern region of Haiti after the earthquake. Pastor Sam developed the Glory Glory orphanage in response to the 2010 earthquake. Shai Foundation was able to support the Glory Glory orphanage.

In April 2013 we launch of our Matumaini sponsorship programme. Matumaini is a Swahili word meaning ‘Hope’. The programme enabled over 80 children in the village of Charlette, to get an education. Charlette is located in Torbeck, Les Cayes. Les Cayes is far south, apx 4 hours’ drive from the capital Port au Prince. The Southern region of Haiti often goes unnoticed by the large aid agencies.

All the children on the Sponsorship Programme were able to get an education and their families received food parcels each month. Shai Foundation visited Haiti regularly to connect with the children and their families and our team on the ‘ground’. There.