No Forgotten Kids

08/19/2026

Today is World Humanitarian Day — a day to honor the people who show up, again and again, for communities in crisis.

This year's global theme calls for greater protection of the humanitarians and health workers who do this work every day, often at real personal risk. We feel that here too. In Haiti, we see it in the aid workers, medical teams, and emergency responders who keep showing up for children and families, even in the hardest conditions.

We also believe crisis response is only the beginning. That's why the Blueprint model exists — to help build something that lasts long after the crisis ends: schools that fund themselves, communities that own their future.

To every humanitarian making a difference, especially those serving in Haiti right now: thank you. 💛

08/07/2026

Aquaculture Enterprise: A fish pond on hub grounds produces protein for the feeding program and market sales. Low-water tilapia species selected for the Haitian climate. The evidence: FAO low-input aquaculture guidance; BRAC fisheries in Bangladesh. This intervention generates an estimated $3 per child per year in revenue. One piece of a much bigger system. Together, these interventions dramatically lower the cost of education while enabling schools to become financially self-sustaining.

08/04/2026

No Forgotten Kids is pleased our recent re-post from GCE-US resonated with so many people. The message is clear: we're not the only ones who believe the future of education in underserved communities is through self-financing, community-owned schools.

That's exactly what we're building. A model where schools generate their own revenue through solar energy, clean water, agriculture, and vocational training. Where communities own the outcome. Where donor dependency has an exit date.

We're in the proof of concept stage right now in Milot, Haiti, adding interventions and expanding spokes from the hub school. 78 evidence-based interventions.

Learn more at noforgottenkids.org

07/30/2026

Honored to be featured by Global Campaign For Education-US and grateful to be one of 40+ organizations in this coalition fighting for education for all.

Lead Haiti, under the direction of Rev. Jose Jean-Pierre, is No Forgotten Kids' implementation partner in Haiti, where NFK is testing a model designed to create

07/28/2026

Every dollar that comes into No Forgotten Kids has a job.
Solar panels to power the entire campus, provide security lighting, and enable evening classes. A bakery, aquaculture ponds, and a poultry operation that teach real skills, feed the school, and generate revenue through market sales. Clean water for better health and sales to the community through a Water ATM. Sewing machines for vocational training and uniform production. A carpentry workshop where students build the school's own furniture and sell the surplus. Classroom dividers for rotational, multi-grade instruction.
These are real costs from real quotes. Choose the intervention you want to fund, and see exactly what your gift puts on the ground.

07/17/2026

Summer camp kicked off at Academie Lead Haiti in Milot. Workshops this session: sewing, painting, electronic repair, coding, and more.
Each workshop maps to a vocational pathway in A Blueprint: A Framework for Educational Autonomy. Textiles. Mechanical engineering. Technology.
The model includes 78 interventions designed to turn a school from a cost center into an economic engine.
We believe that in Haiti, a fully-integrated cluster will result in $194 all-in cost, per child/year. $342 revenue, per child/year. $148 surplus, per child/year.
That's the math behind a self-financing school. And it starts with mornings like this one.
Designed for Donor Exit, not Donor Dependency.

07/15/2026

$40 uniforms one child for a year. For 300 students, that's $12,000 leaving one campus annually.
What if that money never left?
Textile training is one of six apprenticeship lines in A Blueprint: A Framework for Educational Autonomy. Older students, working under a master instructor with strict child-labor safeguards, produce the school's own uniforms, plus household linens, bags, and finished garments for sale. The cost to the household drops to near zero.
The line items that drive families out of school become the line items that fund the school they are choosing to stay in.
We're launching an 18-to-24-month Proof of Concept in Milot, Haiti. We're looking for partners who want to test this education model with us.
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07/10/2026

For many children in rural Haiti, the hardest part of school is getting to one. A Blueprint: A Framework for Educational Autonomy is built around that reality. Small village schools (spokes) within walking distance of every child, connected to a shared hub that holds what no single village could run alone: a lab, a clinic, a library, and vocational workshops. The hub-and-spoke infrastructure is one of 78 evidence-based interventions in our framework. Haiti is our proving ground; the world is our mission.

07/09/2026

When it's exam season, ALH doesn't just prepare its own students. They invite surrounding schools to join them.

The 9th grade state exam is an important student milestone. When it was time to prepare, Academie Lead Haiti in Milot welcomed students from surrounding schools too. Qualified teachers organized review sessions and volunteered extra hours.

This is what commitment and community look like.

Learn more: noforgottenkids.org

07/08/2026

The question isn't how to fund a school forever. It's how to design one that doesn't need you to.

Most education models in low- and middle-income countries depend on outside funding that eventually stops. When it does, so does the school.

A Blueprint: A Framework for Educational Autonomy starts from a different premise. The school has to cut its own costs and generate its own revenue. Multi-grade classrooms reduce staffing expenses. Solar panels power the campus and generate income at a community charging kiosk. Gardens feed students at lunch and sell surplus to the local market. Workshops teach carpentry, textiles, and agriculture while producing goods the school and community use. Clean water systems reduce absenteeism and sell filtered water below what families currently pay.

Every intervention pulls double duty: lowering costs on one side, producing revenue on the other. The surplus comes from both directions.

The projected economics: $194 in costs per student per year, $342 in revenue, $148 in surplus. Provisional figures the Proof of Concept in Milot, Haiti, exists to test.

Learn more: noforgottenkids.org