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Our Mission In Haiti

Our mission is to participate in God's initiative to rewrite the story of the Haitian people through sustainable solutions and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Learn more below about our ongoing initiatives and A Race for the Innocent, our strategic mobilization to combat the intensifying crisis of sex trafficking in Haiti.

Every contribution brings us one step closer to winning A Race for the Innocent.

 

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What We Do

Our Ongoing Initiatives

Haiti Care Package Ministry

An outreach effort that provides life-sustaining aid to individuals and families. Each care package typically costs just $16 and includes enough rice, beans, and cooking oil to feed a small family for a week or more.

 

 

Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who are of the household of faith. (James 2:15-16)
 

Abandoned Widows Ministry 

In Haiti, there are no government programs or social assistance systems in place. When a widow has no family or close friends to care for her, she is often left to suffer alone, physically unable to meet her basic needs.

Our ACOCW team give welfare checks in which these widows are cared for physically and spiritually. 

 

"Honor widows that are widows indeed." (1 Timothy 5:3)

Education Ministry 

We sponsor schools to ensure children get educated and administration gets paid regardless of the families ability to pay tuition. 

 

 

“For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."  Jeremiah 29:11

Youth Ministry 

We host Vacation Bible Schools and other spiritual training programs, build safe recreational spaces for youth, and more.

 

 

Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. (Mark 10:14)

 

Gospel Crusades and Churches 

Crusade evangelism followed by lasting impact through church development and discipleship.

 

 

"How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent?...” (Romans 10:14–15)

Sex Trafficking and Exploitation In Haiti

 

Gang violence has escalated a long-standing epidemic into a humanitarian crisis.

“Children’s bodies have become battlegrounds.” — James Elder, UNICEF

 

Statistics from Mid 2023 to Mid 2025

  • Over one million people have been displaced due to violence; more than half are children.

 

  • Verified cases of sexual violence against children in Haiti soared by 1,000%—a tenfold increase.

 

  • Currently, up to 50% of gang members are children, some as young as eight.

 

 

(Displaced children in Port‑au‑Prince)

 

 

Even in the Haitian prostitution epidemic, these children and young women are not freely choosing to be exploited. The real issue is vulnerability; created by poverty, abuse, and lack of opportunity. 

The solution must start with protection, prevention, and access to real alternatives; like education, housing, and jobs.

A RACE FOR THE INNOCENT

Our mobilization campaign, purpose-built to drive widespread, sustainable change.

 

 Objective One

Immediately scale our sustainable agricultural initiatives to allow these to develop as we prepare for residents. 

  • Initiatives include a large goat farm in conjunction with chickens, fruit trees, and other agriculture.

This will provide rescued survivors with work and skills training in addition to a sustainable food supply.

Did you know: Goats give birth to 2-3 baby’s at a time and a baby goat will reach harvesting size in as little as 5 months.

 Objective Two 

Begin to house, educate, and provide aftercare for rescued women and children, as well as others vulnerable to this crisis.

Our mission goes far beyond meeting basic needs. We walk alongside each resident on a journey of healing and growth; until hope, strength, and purpose are restored.

 

WE CAN’T STOP HERE!

In Haiti, the root problem is that no one has money to pay for goods or services, so jobs struggle to exist. This fuels the desperation that drives the exploitation. Without a real way forward, for many, aftercare becomes a waiting room for re-exploitation, not a pathway to freedom.

Objective Three

 Launch a "cut and sew" garment assembly operation and begin exporting. 

  • A highly people-powered trade, requiring only on-the-job training.
  • Low “barrier to entry” requiring mostly low cost equipment
  • Offering immediate and dignified work opportunities at scale

 

  • Handouts by themselves: offer temporary relief, can lead to dependency and actually disempower
  • A Hand-Up: creates long term change, Builds dignity and self- sufficiency, and empowers people to rise and lead.

Today, the national average for Haitians working in this sector is just $3.33 a day, earned in difficult and demanding conditions, primarily to increase profits for others. Our approach is different. Because our primary goal is sustainability and not profits, we focus on people first, creating safe, healthy workplaces and offering wages dramatically higher than the national average. Every additional dollar earned is reinvested to expand our mission and help more Haitians escape exploitation. This distinction gives us a clear and insurmountable advantage in the industry.

This business puts income directly into the hands of those once most vulnerable. Through this remarkable reversal, the once powerless rise to become the strongest pillars of their communities, leading local economies and breaking the cycle of exploitation from within.

 

However, the transformation doesn’t end there. That income flows through these empowered individuals into local small businesses, toward tuition payments that support teachers, and sparks a ripple effect of opportunity that breathes life and hope into the entire community.

 

 

Haiti Country director Pierre Dieucon(left), Our Construction Manager John Claude (center), and our International Director Caleb Michael (right)

A Cup of Cold Water for Haiti

 

 

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