From the beginning, the What If? Foundation has been working in collaboration with the St. Clare’s community of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Our success over the years has been made possible through the efforts of members of St. Clare’s, who prepare and serve the food program meals every week, enroll students into school, and run an after-school program and annual summer camp. Their commitment expertise, and leadership, combined with the financial resources provided by the What If? Foundation is what has allowed these programs to flourish over the last ten years, even during very turbulent political and economic times.

The catastrophic earthquake of January 12th,2010 revealed the strength of our partnership as we were able to immediately mobilize relief efforts.

Together, we have worked carefully and diligently to grow in a strategic and sustainable way. Here is a history of our growth over the years.

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2010 Goals:

Work with our Haitian partners to:

Continue providing up to 3,000 meals of rice, beans and vegetables to children and adults in the Tiplas Kazo neighborhood every weekday.

Continue to support the 200 students who received school scholarships from the What If? Foundation in 2009.  Enroll them into school for the 2010/11 school year.

Relocate the food and education programs to new land purchased in the neighborhood.

Clear a portion of the land so that tents can be put up for the 8th Annual Summer Camp.

Build a new kitchen and outdoor cafeteria for the food program on the land.

Continue the After-School Program during the 2010/11 school year.

Partner with Haitian rice farmers to provide rice for the food program.

Longer-Term Goals:

Work with our Haitian partners to:

Build a neighborhood school with a library and a daily lunch program on the new land.

Create a community garden on the land.  Install a rainwater catchment system.

Build a small medical clinic on the land.

Collaborate with other non-profits to provide a source of clean drinking water for the community and to install solar power for cooking the food program meals.