Fonds de Parrainage National, Haiti

This private initiative founded by Dr. Antoine Levelt enables 75 deprived children in the coastal town of Gonaives, Haiti to have access to quality education. The sponsored children receive school uniforms, school kits and after school support. This was done all under transparent and witnessed conditions involving the community  that was supported by other financial sources to improve the environment and infrastructure.

Dr Levelt seeks to provide a vehicle through which Haiti’s most vulnerable children can be supported. The FPN programme expands or contracts depending on funding.  For 2010: 70 euro = one school year.

They have been helped by the international community during the post-earthquake period and are now facing a challenging long reconstruction phase. Athough the situation remains critical,  we have to look forward and continue the  efforts to offer a brighter future to the next generation in Haiti, the key to this is to invest in long-term projects aiming at a sustainable development, one of the pillars being EDUCATION.

Le Fonds de Parrainage National, a non-profit, apolitical and legally registered foundation, is a private sector initiative. It was set up as a national effort to attain universal education as rapidly as possible. The foundation aims at providing quality education for most deprived children; it is increasing access, retention and achievement for poor children in selected schools.

In addition to our sponsorship program supported mainly by the Haitian private sector, we are managing a UNICEF project. Its goal is to have children back to school in Gonaives where in September 2004 more than 1,500 people died during the floods caused by Hurricane Jeanne. We are also managing a scholarship program for 13,500 children funded by USAID.

Project Personnel
Antoine LEVELT – Executive Director

Fifty-six years old, Mr. Levelt has an engineer diploma awarded by the National Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble in France, one the French Grande Ecole. From 1979 to 1991, Mr. Levelt was the Senior Administrative Assistant of the UNDP/UNESCO Education projects in Haiti. He is the Executive Director of the Foundation since its creation in 1992.

Hope for Haiti charity

This charity project is focusing on the reconstruction phase after the devastating earthquake of 2010  which has cost many lives and almost completely destroyed whole villages along the West Coast.

Please help us help them: Friends of Paradis des Indiens, Inc. is a volunteer organization.

Our goal is to raise the funds necessary to carry out many projects. The funds raised by the Foundation will help pay for:

* Medical supplies and equipment for the infirmary
* Laptops for the computer center
* Educational programs for children in 12 schools including meals, supplies, uniforms, vocational training, reforestation and scholarships.
* School payroll and teacher training, including teacher’s, and principal’s salaries, manual skills course monitors, supervisors, cooks, maintenance personnel, etc.
* Expansion of existing schools and construction of new schools as needed
* Artisan and crafts workshops including: embroidery, ceramic, wood, dry fruits, and beekeeping.
* Modernization of agricultural programs through the grafting of existing trees.
* Reforestation and establishment of protected green areas planted with trees endemic to Grand’Anse, Haiti.

The Friends of Paradis des Indiens, Inc. is a US based non-profit organization whose mission is to support the schools and projects of Grand’ Anse, Haiti. The organization’s goal is to create an empowered, self-sufficient community by raising funds to support education, work and modernization of the existing resources of the region.

Paradis des Indiens in Abricots is a humanitarian organization created to combat illiteracy, through the implementation of educational programs that not only facilitate learning but also impart real life skills to both children and adults in Abricots, Haiti.

The mission of the organization in Abricots, Haiti, is primarily to educate, but the goal is to empower the people of Abricots to achieve both financial independence and self-sufficiency through entrepreneurial development.

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