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. This commitment and expertise, 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.

Now, with the catastrophic earthquake of January 12th, our special partnership with the St. Clare’s community has made it possible for thousands of people to receive desperately needed food and water daily.   See our earthquake relief page for more details.

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:

Provide 5,000 meals of rice and beans to earthquake survivors seven days/week.  (Before the earthquake 1,500 meals/day were served every Monday through Friday at the food program.)

Provide canned food and water for 10,000 people daily.  Each truckload of food and water brought in from the Dominican Republic costs $5000.  We hope to be able to purchase these supplies in Haiti soon.

Create a way – perhaps through tent schools – to allow children to return to school as soon as possible.  Continue to support the nearly 200 students who received school scholarships from the What If? Foundation in 2009.

Maintain a health clinic at the St. Clare’s rectory with visiting doctors and other medical personnel.

Support the community as they look to the future and begin to rebuild.

Long-Term Goals:

Plant, grow, and harvest fruit trees and vegetables.  Identify a water source or irrigation alternatives. A SMALL COMMUNITY GARDEN PROJECT WAS STARTED IN SEPT. 2009.  IT’S AN EXPERIMENT WHICH WE HOPE WILL GROW OVER TIME.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

Build a school with a library and daily lunch program.

Collaborate with Other Non-Profits to:

Provide a source of clean drinking water for the community.

Install solar power for cooking food program meals.