About Road to Ginen

An organization built for the long road.

We are a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit working in Haiti. We are small, we move deliberately, and we believe the most important work is the kind that takes decades.

Our story

Road to Ginen was founded on a conviction: sustainable development in Haiti has to be led by Haitian knowledge, Haitian language, and Haitian community priorities — not by imported frameworks or outside timelines.

We started with two projects that are less programs than acts of listening: Lodyans, to hear and preserve what Haitian communities have to say, and Vakans Ansanm, to build an educational space that starts from pride rather than deficit.

We are in our founding phase: small by design, honest about where we are, and building the institutional trust that makes durable programs possible.

Our commitments

Not values. Obligations.

Anyone can write values. These are the specific, nameable things we hold ourselves to, and the things we ask you to hold us to.

Public transparency

Every dollar received and spent is publicly recorded. Our ledger is not a year-end report but a live record. If we cannot explain a transaction, we should not make it.

Community decision-making

No program is designed outside and imposed in. We survey, we listen, and we build from what communities say they need.

Naming our mistakes publicly

When we get things wrong, and we will, we say so publicly, explain what happened, and describe how we are correcting course. Silence is not an option here.

Long-term accountability

We are building an organization meant to outlast its founders. That means investing in community leadership and refusing short-term thinking that erodes long-term trust.