Our Work

Three pillars, one Haiti.

Sustainable change is built slowly, honestly, and in community. This is where we actually are — not where we aspire to be.

Education

Haiti is one of the most multilingual societies in the hemisphere. Our education work starts from that fact — programs that meet people in their own language, centered on oral history, digital literacy, and multilingual curriculum in Grand'Anse and Cap-Haïtien.

Current phase: School surveying pilot with a Grand'Anse director: mapping infrastructure, language needs, and community priorities before any program is committed.

Education project

Vakans Ansanm

A community-led summer youth program.

Education project

Lodyans Archive

Collecting and preserving Haitian oral history.

Ideas we are brooding on — not programs yet, just thinking out loud

What would a Kreyòl-first digital literacy curriculum actually look like, built from Haitian communicative traditions outward rather than translated in?

Should Vakans Ansanm leave the community something it keeps, an oral-history document or a multilingual zine, not just an experience?

The Cap-Haïtien school network is largely unmapped. A simple relationship-mapping exercise might surface coordinators and informal infrastructure we could build with.

Food Security

Food security in Haiti is inseparable from land, soil health, water, and the systematic devaluation of Haitian agricultural knowledge. We do not import solutions. We start with what communities already know.

Current phase: Partner and stakeholder research. No active programs yet. We will not launch until we have heard from the communities a program would serve.

Ideas we are brooding on — not programs yet, just thinking out loud

Grand'Anse was a breadbasket before the hurricanes. Two local cooperatives are already doing soil rehabilitation with little outside support. Is there a role for us, or should we simply point people to them?

Haitian agroecological knowledge is extensive and undocumented. There is a Lodyans angle here: oral histories from farmers as both archive and applied knowledge base.

What does food sovereignty look like where seeds, supply chains, and market access have all been disrupted repeatedly? We do not have an answer yet.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure work in Haiti has a history of imposition: projects designed elsewhere, built without local expertise, abandoned when outside interest leaves. We will not do that.

Current phase: Not yet active. Relationships first.

Ideas we are brooding on — not programs yet, just thinking out loud

Digital infrastructure may be the entry point: lower capital, community-visible results, and a direct enabler of the Education pillar through school connectivity.

What do communities say they need most, versus what outside organizations tend to prioritize? We want a proper community needs survey before going near this pillar.

Biomimicry-informed design, learning from local ecological conditions rather than importing industrial templates, has real application to water, materials, and waste here.

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Sustainability as lens, not pillar

Sustainability is not a fourth pillar. It is the lens through which every program is designed, measured, and held accountable. Ecological and cultural regeneration are inseparable from lasting human development.