Mission:
YMCA d' Haiti is a community-based organization committed to building spirit, mind and body. YMCA d' Haiti develops youth, teens and adults through education and character building programs, to enable them to become leaders in creating a stronger community in Haiti. Vision:
By 2020, YMCA d' Haiti will advance its mission impact and sustainability to serve 15,000 youth, teens and adults
in 15 communities, through educational and life skills programs which help to build our community's leadership. Values:
Respect, Responsibility, Honesty, Caring
Activities
• Summer Camp
YMCA d’Haïti has already organized 14 summer camp : « Training in relaxation ». During this activity, the young have presentations on various topics such as drugs, AIDS, juvenile delinquency, early pregnancy and so on.
• School support
This program is primarly to help young people to improve performance in school and increase their level of general knowledge. These young are supervised by our volunteers and instructors who almost themselves benefit from POTEKOLE Program.
• Sports and recreation activities
We have a lot of sports activities such as soccer, tennis and volleyball. As a recreation activities, we have: dancing, reading, sculpture, arts, music and so on.
• Classes
Young in YMCA d’Haiti always have English and spanish classes. Those classes are for YMCA d’Haiti staff, members, volunteers and people in the community.
• Training and Employement Assistance
Of continuing education through seminars undertaken at fairly regular intervals in order to improve the training of employees of the YMCA d’Haiti as well as members. A program of employement has been established to facilitate the integration of youth in the labor market.
• Travel and scholarships
As part of the partnership between the YMCA d’Haïti and its collaborators, members, staff and volunteers benefit training travel and scholarships. Currently, many approaches are being undertaken to make available to employees and members a distance learning program.
• Potekole
Through POTEKOLE Program, the YMCA d’Haiti provides youth to attend or return to the path of school by paying their tuition and purchase materials school. Centers
We have 9 youth community centers:
Port-au-Prince, Laboule, Kenscoff, Camp-Perrin,Marchand Dessalines, Croix-des-bouquets,Caracol, Fontamara and Cité-Soleil
We have others that are building :
Laurent, Délugé, Delmas, Pont-Sondé, Petion-Ville and St-Roc
