Help children from Qui-Croit stay in school, receive daily meals, and build a future beyond the crisis.
Words in Action Haiti is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Donations are tax-deductible in the U.S.
In Qui-Croit, children are capable, motivated, and ready to learn. What they lack is possibilities. Your sponsorship provides the steady support that keeps them in school and on a path to a brighter future.
For years, WIA has helped children keep learning, healing, and growing despite Haiti’s ongoing instability and crisis.
A meal during the school day does far more than satisfy hunger. It helps children learn with focus, provides strength, and promotes developmental growth.
Our goal is to help children remain enrolled and keep learning despite the instability in Haiti, because education gives them the chance to define their own future.
In Qui-Croit, families have been displaced. The community's only school was shut down and occupied by a gang. Words In Action has secured a safe place for children to learn — but safety alone does not guarantee education.
On January 27, 2025, armed gangs stormed Qui-Croit, killing innocent people — including children.
Nearly 600 students, from kindergarten through 9th grade, were forced to flee with their families. The community’s only school was seized and occupied by gangs. Homes were burned. The families of Qui-Croit, mostly small-scale farmers, lost everything: their land, their livestock, their livelihoods.
Today, these families live as displaced people. Parents who once fed their children from their own farms now have no income and no way to pay even modest school fees. Children who were already walking for over an hour through mountainous terrain to reach a classroom are now walking even farther, many of them almost barefoot, with shoes that have holes in the soles or with the uppers completely detached.
Words In Action secured an empty complex in Fort Jacques and reopened school operations so these children would not lose the year. What started with under 100 students has grown to nearly 300 children, ages 3 to 18, showing up every day despite everything they have been through. But safety alone does not guarantee education. Without sponsorship, there is no tuition. Without tuition, there are no teachers. Without a daily meal, often the only meal these children receive, hunger makes learning impossible.
Our process protects each child’s dignity while helping sponsors choose a child in a respectful and personal way.
Complete the form and we will email you the private sponsorship booklet.
Each profile shares a child’s name, age, grade, interests, and dreams.
Choose the child you feel called to sponsor, or let WIA match you with a child in urgent need.
$30/month covers tuition, a daily meal, school supplies, and ongoing care for one child.
Sponsors receive academic updates, an annual impact summary, and a financial transparency report.
Every sponsored child receives a complete “Learning Continuity Package” — tuition, books, uniforms, a hot meal every day, and a safe space to study — because removing even one barrier can be the difference between a child who stays in school and a child who disappears from the classroom forever.
Covers tuition and fees so a child’s family never has to choose between school and survival.
One hot meal a day — for many of these children, the only meal they will eat.
Textbooks, notebooks, uniforms — everything a child needs to show up ready to learn.
Access to language and technology instruction that opens doors beyond Qui-Croit.
Children’s stories deserve dignity, privacy, and care. For that reason, WIA shares detailed child profiles only through a private sponsorship booklet sent to interested sponsors by email.
This allows sponsors to choose a child in a respectful way while protecting the children’s privacy and humanity.
It means a six-year-old learns to read instead of working the fields. It means a teenager discovers she can become a nurse, an engineer, a leader. It means a community that lost nearly everything begins to rebuild itself — not with concrete and steel, but with knowledge, confidence, and purpose.
When a child stays in school, the ripple effect reaches far beyond the classroom. Families gain hope. Teachers gain reason to stay. And a generation that was told their future was over begins to prove otherwise
Complete the form below and we will email you the private sponsorship booklet with the next steps.
Before he became Dr. Claude Louis, he was a child whose education was protected because someone chose to help. That chance opened a door — and today, he is helping open doors for the next generation of children in Qui-Croit.
Words in Action Haiti is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Donations are tax-deductible in the U.S.