Current Projects

ECOLE COMMUNAUTAIRE DE L’ODEVICH
25, Rue Monseigneur Guilloux Prolongée Ferrier    Tel: 347 358 7173

Program Started in 2006

Haiti is the poorest country in our hemisphere. Due to the lack of public schools and extreme poverty, only 60% of Haitian children attend school. This is solely related to some serious economic problems where 40% of the children don’t have a birth certificate; parents do not have the means to pay private school tuitions for their children. There is very little government-funded education, and only 20% of the children who do go to school can attend government schools. Everyone else must pay for a private school education or stay at home.

Haitians understand the value of education; they realize that education is likely their best way out of poverty. Haitian children know that education is a privilege and are proud to wear their school uniforms. You will never find a child skipping school in Haiti! Most families make tremendous sacrifices to send their children to school; many go without meals, work dusk to dawn in the marketplaces, walk long distance back and forth, and live in desperately cramped quarters so that  they can save money to provide an education. Even with these sacrifices it is often not enough to pay for the 14 consecutive years of schooling necessary for a student to finish high school here. Only 5% of the children who start school will finish.

At ODEVICH, we know that sponsoring a child's education is an investment with tremendous returns and one that helps that child becomes self sufficient and an independent adult with the skills and knowledge to work and support his or her family. Education provides hope for the future of Haiti.
 

Projects

Since its inception, ODEVICH have done the following:
We built 90 Latrines
• Establishment of a primary school in the community of Morne l’hopital Ferrier
• The provision of medicines to more than 2,000 people through its mobile clinics
• Support to the education of more than 300 children through primary and secondary schools of the capital
• The reforestation of several communities
• The implementation of 25 workshops focused on education
• Emergency Relief to more than 6,000 victims from 2006 to 2010 (medicines, shoes, food and clothes).
• The establishment of partnership with: 6 International Institutions.
• Awareness of more than 1000 young people 15-35 years on the prevention of HIV / AIDS and STDs
• The completion of more than 200 home visits on the issue of HIV / AIDS and STDs
• Completion of 250 conferences in the schools on HIV / AIDS and STDs for young people aged 15-35 years.
• The facilitation of 280 community conferences on HIV / AIDS and STDs
• Facilitation of 6 seminars for key people in 6 communities of Morne Hospital (teachers, pastors, priests, school Principals, etc.).


Projects in Perspective
• Expand our activities to promote health in West Department of the of Haiti, specifically in Carrefour Feuille including the most vulnerable communities such as Fort-Mercredi, Savanne pistache and Grande Ravine.
• Expand our educational activities in West Department including
establishment of a community library in Carrefour Feuilles for young and Adults.
• Extend the greater part of ODEVICH intervention on prevention of HIV / AIDS and STDs through schools in West Department
• Extend advantage of our sponsorship program in West Department 
• Creation of a food security project in West Department 
• Build an educational complex in West Department
• Strengthen our community health actions in west Department 
• Construction of 150 houses at least in the community
• Construction of 150 latrines and construction of 120 Cisterns in our target communities
• Start a pilot project for fish farming
• saving and lending community program