Our Mission

We believe access to a quality education is a human right. We partner with the community of Belot, Haiti to provide a quality education to children in the remote mountains of southern Haiti.

Our Current Mission Initiatives

Peak Partner Missions strives to create an optimum learning environment for Haitians students through better nutrition, teacher training, curricular materials and improvements to the school facility.

SUSTAIN A FREE SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM

After meeting with the school’s director and teachers it was decided that beginning a lunch program was the most important initiative back in 2019. Up until then, students had to supply their own lunch, with most students going without food the entire school day. We are blessed to say that for the past three years we have been able to serve a lunch of rice and beans five days a week. We recently expanded the free lunch program to include the newly added grade 7, 8, and 9 students. In addition, garlic and vegetables from the church’s community garden are included in the lunch to make it even more nutritious.

Expanded the School to Include Grades 7 thru 9

At community meetings held at the church/school over the past year one message has been heard often by Pastor Reginald- expand the school to include more grade levels! Families on the mountain where the New Birth School is located fear for the safety of their children if they had to walk down the mountain to a school in Kenscoff, the closest larger town. Kidnappings and a general lack of law and order keep families close to their homes. In addition, schools in Kenscoff charge tuition and families living on the mountain are mostly poor subsistence farmers who cannot pay tuition. Many sixth graders are then forced to end their formal education and help with their family’s farm or do housekeeping chores. The dream of a secondary school has now taken shape. Using local labor and volunteers from the community, three additional classrooms have been constructed adjacent to the existing school. They house grade 7, 8, and 9 students. Along with a quality education, the middle school students receive the same nutritious hot lunch as the younger students do.

Train Teachers, Provide In-service

More than half of Haiti’s teachers lack basic qualifications to teach. We support teacher education and continuing in-service for New Birth School teachers .Each summer teachers meet at the school with Haitian department of education representatives for a two-day seminar. Best teaching practices are discussed, as well as curricular requirements for national educational exams.

Pastor Reginald wants his students to know Jesus. Teachers have been given instruction on how to use a 30 minute block of time daily to share bible lessons and prayer.

A Medical Clinic Opens At the School

It has always been the prayer of Pastor Reginald and his community to have medical services right within the village. Pastor knows how far people have to travel to see a doctor. Quite often he would be the one to drive sick or injured people to the hospital in Port-au-Prince, an arduous two-hour drive. So he and local residents built a modest room off of the school’s kitchen, added some shelves, a table and two chairs. Common medicines were purchased. They contracted with a doctor and nurse to see patients three days a week. The clinic started seeing patients in March, 2023 and has averaged a hundred patients a week. The medical clinic sees people free of charge.

Create a Sustainable Community Garden

A fallow field next to pastor’s home is now the site of a community garden. Members of the New Birth Church community volunteer their time and talents to prepare the soil, plant the seed, fertilize and weed the field, and harvest the crops. Started in 2022, the garden has yielded crops of garlic, potatoes and yams. Part of the harvest is shared with community members, part is used to enhance school lunches, and part is sold at market to provide funds for future planting.

Pastor has also planted banana trees nearby and hopes to add additional fruit-bearing trees soon.

Improve the School Facility

Peak Partner Missions and its partners have provided desks for the 350 students as well as a small library and office. A kitchen was equipped to begin serving lunch daily. Clean, safe filtered water is available at the school for students to drink and the community to access.

Early in 2023 three new classrooms were constructed adjacent to the existing school to house grade 7, 8, and 9 students. Improvements to other classrooms include walls added to better separate classrooms and new windows for ventilation. New desks for the middle school students were constructed on site by community members. And most recently, in March of 2023, a rudimentary space to house the medical clinic was built.

What We Have Accomplished Together