MANY HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC
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Mission Statement
Your contribution will help children in Ecole Academie Solidarite du Nord in Cap-Haitien, a primary school in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. Started in 2017 with 18children. Now Many Hands International provides a free quality education for over 200 children at this school. The children walk sometimes 1-2 hours to school. They are often hungry without food at home and at school. We realize that we can’t do it alone, hence the name: Many Hands International. We need your help to keep the lights on, the teachers paid, the books open, and the children nourished. To do this, MHI’s goal is 200 donors at $55/month, less than $2 a day to meet our ideal annual operating budget of $122,760. Teacher and Staff (18) Salaries$51,339 per year -Food $48,000 per year for @ least one meal per day -Uniforms $20,761 (3 sets of uniforms per child) -Bookbags $3,500. Current Operating Budget: $33,538. MHI’s Short Term Plans: Provide at least one daily meal for the children -Provide training for the teachers -Increase teacher’s salary up to 30% per year -Increase the monthly donor base -Employ an individual to assist Many Hands International with operations -Lease a more spacious building for the school. MHI’s Long Term Plans: Buy land to build a permanent school -Add more teachers and moregrade levels -Provide health care to students -Provide transportation to students -Sponsor children to continue onto high school -Provide vocational education after high school. MHI’s Request: To build a long-term, ongoing strategic partnership with you, your company and togarner long-term monthly or yearlyfinancial support. By the way, 100% of your contribution goes toward running the school, and MHI's board also contributes toward the cause. Sincerily, Jordani Pluviose, President
About This Cause
Knowledge is indispensable to a good life - for it teaches us the way things are and how they work in this world of ours. Knowledge has enabled astronauts to set foot on the moon and physicians to treat previously fatal diseases. It has permitted the construction of towering buildings that scrape the skies and steel bird-like contraptions that fly people from one place to another. It has shown fathers and mothers how to best care for and raise their children. And it has enabled neighbors to value, respect and care for each other. Yet knowledge is something that is often taken for granted, undervalued or corrupted in many places. And the lack of it has caused people throughout history to act in counterproductive or destructive ways, leading to poverty, misery, despair, hopelessness and often premature death. Knowledge is foundational to a good life. Food, shelter and clothing are all very essential things. But if one does not know how to promote his or her own welfare and avert pitfalls, these essentials are only a temporary respite. Knowledge is the most valuable thing a person can possess. In keeping with these beliefs, Many Hands International is establishing its educational program before any other. This program has several main areas of focus that MHI believes are integral to knowledge: “The academic, the vocational, sportsmanship and the moral”. The first is concerned mainly with helping students learn and understand the basic information and skills needed to succeed in life - things like reading, writing, using math, knowing geography and world history. The second is focused on helping students acquire the understanding and skills needed to accomplish common or necessary tasks in a chosen profession or in life generally - things like using a computer, being able to type, knowing how to plan, understanding how to construct a home and the like. The third has to do with helping students learn moral principles that will benefit them and others throughout their lives - things like acting towards others as you would like them to act towards you, respecting others and their property, being truthful, caring for and meeting the needs of others who are less fortunate. Program Summary: The main focus is the academic part. This part of the program is an educational for children from elementary to high school that reside in Haiti. This program represents 12 months operation, which includes all school tuition for the year. Currently there are 30 students in the program and within the next four years, the organization will enroll 300 children that should be in school but not because their parents could not afford the annual tuition, orphanages that would want to be in school but do not have the money to pay. Though this is not yet an orphanage program, its purpose is to promote fewer children on the streets during school hours, better community, positive youth development through life skills and education. This will encourage leadership and foster an uplifting educational environment. The program is a comprehensive community development program. The program simultaneously addresses several core issues facing Haiti communities: education, juvenile crime, leadership, gang activity and lack of opportunities. It uniquely addresses the status of at-risk youth, who have no apparent path to a productive future. This program can be used as a crime prevention program because to demolish crime and break down gang strongholds the vacuum must be filled with something sustainable. Education set the stage to do just that. Many Hands International realizes despite so many efforts deployed in the system of education by past and present Governments in Haiti, there are significant numbers of children who are on the streets during school hours that should be in school. This phenomenon is the lack of medium economic of the parents, who are also sometimes unemployed, have low employment or have multiple children. There is a vicious cycle of poverty and lack of education that prevails in Haiti. Many Hands International believes the only way to break this cycle is to start chipping at the roots piece by piece. and wants to ensure that as many young children can have access to education and at least one meal per day. Having traveled back and forth to Haiti for almost ten years, our desire to help has grown resolute as we have seen primary school-aged children have no access to basic education and nearly 90% of the population lacking basic reading, writing and communication skills. Children are homeless and dying daily mainly because of malnutrition. We believe every child deserves the opportunity to receive an education, better themselves and learn how to contribute the needs of others. Here are some facts to provide a glimpse of the socioeconomic situation of the Haitian population: • 59% of the population lives on less than US$2 per day. (World Bank 2012) • 24.7% lives in extreme poverty or less than US$1.25 per day. (UNDP 2013) • 50 percent of children do not attend school. (World Bank 2013) • 30% of children attending primary school will not make it to third grade. • 60% will abandon school before sixth grade. (UNICEF 2008) • 30% of the population is considered food insecure. (World Food Program 2015) So Many Hands International (MHI) in its action plan aims toward education and tries to help these children, providing indirect financial assistance and supplies on a continuous and gradual basis. Because a comprehensive approach is called for, the program will gradually and inevitable become a number of things at once: It is a community service program, in which successful parents of participants will serve the community as pay forward. It allows parents and participants to simultaneously empower themselves and rebuild their own lives and community. It is a youth development program, in which young people participate in personal counseling, peer support groups, and life planning processes which assist them in healing from past hurts, over-coming negative habits and attitudes, and pursuing achievable goals which will establish a productive lifestyle, sustaining themselves and their immediate families. It is a long-term mini-community, in which young people make new friends committed to positive lifestyles, pursue cultural and recreational activities together, helping one another with school works and can continue to participate for years though a graduate program and an organizational leader's network. It is a community development program, in which community based organizations obtain the resources to tackle several key community issues at once, educate and inspire their youth, create leadership for the future, and generally take responsibility for their neighborhoods. It is not accurate to define program as any of one of its particular parts. It must be understood as a comprehensive whole. It fits in many places, and compliments everything else related to tackling at-risk issues and engaging young people as productive members and potential leaders of a democratic society. Overall objective To improve the conditions for at- risked children in disadvantaged area: Cap-Haïtien by providing them with assistance to complete primary education on a continuous basis. Our goal is to have coverage much more expanded in terms of beneficiaries and territory also. Specific Objective • Enhancing access to education • Support disadvantaged parents in their interest to send their children to school • Boost the confidence and bring hope to the students Program Outreach & Recruitment The structure set up to lead to the realization of this project is to conduct an optimal investigation in the remote and disadvantaged areas of the communities, in order to enlist the most needed children in the program. The program has selected at risked and disadvantaged boys’ and girls’ school aged individuals from 7 to 15 as its target group. Participants will be characterized by having a strong desire for school but lack the necessary opportunities to attend. Participants may face several at-risk issues (e.g. Poverty; lack of parental support; educational deficiencies; mental and emotional challenges). We believe the program at this age will give the participants the opportunity to create their own paths and become leaders in their communities. The program will achieve its purpose to promote positive youth development through education. Since we did not have enough money to enlist all children found in need; the candidate will be picked through a lottery process. For the recipient to remain in the sponsorship program, he/she must maintain his/her conduct, notes at an acceptable level including participation in class. Given the project sustainability plans, we do not want our recipients to be abandoned at halfway; therefore, we will do fundraising one or twice a year; we will solicit potential and non-potential donors and will contact individually sponsors and share the project with them and hope they will pledge to sponsor a child/children in a continuous basis until the child is done with a profession that they can use to provide for themselves. In addition, Many Hands International is also contemplating administrative approaches to ask other organizations to help with obtaining funds and school supplies. Currently, the project has already jump started because of the organization faithful and sacrificial members. Members pledged to sponsor between 10 through 20 children as they are making multiple efforts to have friends, co-workers, family members, churches, organizations among others. Given that the project is young, we have only these activities for the present time, but we will be considering enlarging as opportunities present themselves in the future.