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Choix serves young Haitians living in conditions of poverty and insecurity that leave many households struggling to meet basic needs.

The numbers below illustrate why Choix’s support is essential. We provide not only a high quality academic model but also stability, nutrition, health care and the assurance that their learning will not stop when crises interrupt their daily lives.

We are dedicated to remaining in solidarity with our graduates, some of whom have been with Choix since our inception and practically all of whom started in Choix’s 1st grade.

Our faculty members use their creativity and resolve, together with digital tools, to replicate the energy and focus of in-person learning. The program offers tutoring and academic enrichment, mentoring, social and emotional education, personal development and health education. Students have one on one direct access to our nurse for consultation, offering trusted guidance at a time when most families have little or no access to health care.

Alongside this online program, Choix continues its scholarship initiative for all qualifying graduates. Scholarships cover not only tuition at local academic programs, but also uniforms, books and supplies, transportation, and other essential resources on an as needed basis. This combined academic and scholarship program has led to measurable success year after year. For example, Choix graduates who participate in our academic excellence program have maintained a 100% success rate on national exams, compared to an average passing rate of 54 percent for students in our region.

Our objective was to give students the skills to support themselves and their families, educate their own children, and help to break the cycle of poverty.

However, by 2024 the contributor environment for Haiti collapsed due to circumstances in the country: violent gangs frequently blocked roads and ports and public institutions struggled to function. While we could have sustained both programs from an operations perspective, even in the face of these challenges, we unfortunately were unable to sustain this elementary component of our program from a financial perspective.

As a result, we graduated our final class of 6th graders in Summer 2024. Yet, Choix itself did not close. Instead, we persisted to operate our Graduate Academic Enrichment Program in person on our campus for as long as conditions allowed, with our graduates gathering safely at Choix after school for tutoring, mentoring and leadership development.

When Haiti’s security situation made physical attendance impossible, we shifted our entire program online so that learning could continue without interruption. Today, Choix provides a fully digital Graduate Academic Program that reaches our students wherever they now reside, supported by our faculty’s creativity, resolve and commitment to every learner.