St. Barthélémy Smiles

We are always so happy to share the latest photos of St. Bart's students - especially with smiles all around! Enjoy some of the latest snapshots taken on campus here below! We are truly grateful that these students have a secure and enjoyable environment to learn, laugh, and grow! Staff and teachers have been ensuring the very best for everyone, putting at ease the 130 displaced boys and girls who consider St. Barthélémy their safe haven - distant from the unfortunate circumstances elsewhere in Haiti that led them to Terrier Rouge. Thank you to all our student sponsors and school supporters for making an incredible difference in the lives of St. Barthélémy's new and returning students!

To sponsor a student in need of your support, click here OR send a check, noting that you want to be a sponsor (PO Box 48387, Athens, GA 30604)! A sponsorship costs just $300 per year (or $25 per month). A sponsored student's education, uniforms, daily meals, supplies, healthcare, and extracurricular activities - such as band, drill team, and soccer - are ALL provided to them free of charge.

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The Intangibles . . . the “AND MORE”

JP’s green shirts are known throughout Northeast Haiti. They come with a gold star reputation.

How will the economy of Northeast Haiti improve if farmers can’t find good markets to sell their crops? How will land be vouchsafed for families fifty years from now, if farmers today don’t learn how to protect it? How will families succeed with their little enterprises if they don’t know the rudiments of business? How can students become interested in their environment if no one has awakened their curiosity? How will things ever get better in Haiti’s countryside if its young people continue to abandon it for the city? What will change their minds?

 JP goes out of its way to know the people it serves, and everyone loves to dance.

Reforestation, erosion terraces, and deep-planted yams are the tangible parts of what we do, but they are not everything. Just as important are the intangible parts of our work. In fact, maybe more important because without them, positive change will not endure. More than half of our days are spent connecting to the intangible needs and dreams of the people we serve.

A whole lot of curiosity is about to be ignited by two JP agronomists at a village school.

Our green shirts can be spotted throughout Northeast Haiti - igniting children’s curiosity in little wooden schoolhouses, hammering out solutions to farmers’ problems, and coaching families who are staking out terraces with a plumb bob. You’ll see our green-shirted staff with a generator, a boom box, and a pot of gumbo in the middle of villages, celebrating successes like a good harvest, a new mill, or a thousand trees planted.

A JP agronomist listens to the elders’ ideas.

 Young people on a farm listen to a JP agronomist who has become a friend and a great role model.

You’ll see our staff deep in conversation with elders and surrounded like rock stars by teens wanting to talk about “stuff.” Our agronomists are young, cool, and successful, and good parents, too. In other words, inspiring role models in a place where there aren’t many.

At JP, we are investing the time to make sure people succeed and change endures. That is the ‘more’ part of ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND TREES AND MORE, and it’s what it takes to break generational poverty in rural Haiti. Thank you for your help in making it happen.

Rob

Rob Fisher, Executive Director

Partner For People And Place/JP Haiti

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO FINISH STRONG!

The dry season started early in Haiti this year. Knowing that it is not how many trees are planted, but how many survive that counts, the nimble JP team switched gears to other critical tasks. Terraces, featuring pineapple plants, were carved into steep hillsides to prevent soil erosion when the rains return. African yams were buried three feet deep in the ground, where they will wait until they feel moisture around them before sprouting and pushing their shoots up through the soil to find the sun.

The seasonal cooler weather and rain WILL come, and we need to be ready to plant! More funds are needed in order to complete the 100,000 Trees AND MORE project. Please consider donating to support this project.

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Back-to-School!

St. Barthélémy students are back to school! We are thrilled to see the school filled with students again - ready to learn and grow! Join us in admiring the very first snapshots of the 2025-2026 school year! 

Father Jabnel celebrated a wonderful mass for the students, and the Director of the elementary school, Maitre Wilfrid Pierre (pictured with the microphone), spoke to the students, welcoming them to the new school year.

Join us in praying for a truly happy, healthy, and successful 2025-2026 school year for our students, teachers, and staff! We thank all our student sponsors and school supporters for making an incredible difference in the lives of these students - Haiti's future!

Although none of us can change the entire world, you can change the entire world of a St. Barthélémy student by sponsoring them! Now that school is back in session, we need more sponsors for St. Barthélémy's newest students — those starting preschool and those of various grades who relocated to Terrier Rouge due to conditions elsewhere in Haiti. To sponsor a student, click the link here: tinyurl.com/StudentSponsorship OR send us a check, noting that you want to be a sponsor (PO Box 48387, Athens, GA 30604). A sponsorship costs just $300 per year (or $25 per month). A sponsored student's education, uniforms, daily meals, supplies, healthcare, and extracurricular activities - such as band, drill team, and soccer - are ALL provided to them free of charge. Pictured below are just a few of St. Bart's preschool students needing sponsors. Please consider making a difference in the lives of these children and their fellow classmates by becoming a student sponsor today.

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