Direct and indirect Beneficiaries
- 500 Direct beneficiaries
- 400.000 Indirect beneficiaries
Objectives
- Provide free access to basic literacy.
- Provide free access to professional training.
- Improve health-sanitation conditions.
- Contribute to cultivating art and talent as additional elements for self expression.
- Return to the community a place that offers a safe haven.
Project details
PARTNER
Fondation St. Luc – Haiti
ABF ACTIONS
- Renovation works of the identified building.
- Furnishing and organisation of the spaces of the new facility.
- Coverage of start-up costs for the first 3 months of the centre’s operation.
THE PROJECT
ABF has covered the costs of recovery and renovation of a building located in Soleil 17, one of the largest slums in Port-au-Prince, in order to provide free basic literacy, catechesis, art and civics, to all those who do not have access to education and vocational training in this community. This centre, delivered to Fondation St Luc in February 2018, will welcome a minimum of 500 children and adults per year, and will support skills training, so that they have better chances to provide for themselves.
THE CONTEXT
Located just outside the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, Cité Soleil is one of the poorest and most densely populated areas in the country. In the slum there are few school facilities, and only a few medical clinics. Shops and businesses are also rare. The conditions of life and sanitation are precarious, especially after the earthquake of 2010 that destroyed the few pipelines, as well as many of the wells that are still dry.
