Child Services

Child Services is a key department in our organization.

It is responsible for sponsor engagement and class enrollment with their child. See below for a brief explanation and some helpful tips for child letters.

Class Enrollment:

  • Each spring we enroll new students to start the school program. In some cases we replace students that are not able to continue.

  • Each month a roll-call is done to determine if any children have discontinued due to a few unfortunate causes (relocating, health).

  • Each year before school begins the class lists are validated and clothing/book stipends are hand delivered to each student.

  • Child updates including graduation to the next grade are made in our system available to the sponsors on our web.

Sponsor Engagement:

  • New sponsorships are provide with a welcome packet about each child sponsored.

  • Updates on children such as pictures (semi-annually sent) and profile updates (on our site) are scheduled at regular intervals.

  • The best way to get updates is to send a note to your child. Our Media team in Haiti has a schedule for driving to each school to deliver letters and get responses back.

  • Gifts to children and classes are allowed with a $20 limit. Each month these are delivered and a response sent back to the sponsor.

Helpful Letter Tips:

You can send letters and pictures into our office.

@ PO box 1460 Fitchburg MA 01420.

Our preferred method is online, which gets a quicker response.

Many of the children are shy about a relationship with someone in a different country. They will open up as correspondence continues. To help this process you might want to include something personal about your family and ask questions that are more specific.

A question like “What is something you like to do when you get home, your favorite subject, what makes you happy, what is your favorite celebration” will get a better response that “How are you”?

Please allow 30 days for your letter to be translated, provided to our Haiti staff, a visit arranged and the response to be translated and delivered back to you.