A $30 monthly or $360 annual sponsorship helps a child in Qui-Croit access school, learning materials, and a nutritious meal each school day.
Secure recurring payments through PayPal or debit/credit card. Cancel anytime. Words in Action Haiti is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit; contributions may be tax-deductible as allowed by law.
Children in Qui-Croit are capable, motivated, and ready to learn. What many families lack is reliable access to the resources that make education possible. Sponsorship provides steady support for school access, daily nourishment, learning materials, and educational continuity.
Despite Haiti’s ongoing crisis and instability, more than 250 children have participated in WIAH’s education and child-development programs.
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 at least 95% of participating children remain enrolled, because education gives them the chance to define their own future.
Families from Qui-Croit have been displaced, and the community’s only school was shut down and occupied by armed groups. WIAH secured a safe place where children could continue learning—but safety alone cannot sustain their 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 the use of an available complex in Fort Jacques and reopened the school so these children would not lose the academic year. What began with fewer than 100 students has grown to nearly 300 children, ages 3 to 18, who continue showing up despite everything they have experienced. Sponsorship helps provide the teachers, tuition, learning materials, and daily nourishment they need to continue their education. For some children, the school meal may be the only dependable meal they receive that day.
Enter your name and email to access the private sponsorship directory.
Read the available profiles and select the child you would like to sponsor.
Choose $30 monthly or $360 annually and pay securely through PayPal or debit/credit card.
Children’s stories and photographs deserve dignity, privacy, and care. WIAH does not place unrestricted child profiles throughout the public website.
To view the sponsorship directory, visitors provide their name and email and acknowledge how that information will be used. Access then remains active on that device for 30 days.
Public profiles use only the child’s first name and the information needed to help prospective sponsors make a thoughtful decision.
Every sponsored child receives a complete “Learning Continuity Package” — school access, books, uniforms, a nutritious meal each school day, and a safe place to study. Together, these essentials help remove the barriers that can push a child out of the classroom.
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.
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
Before becoming Dr. Claude Louis, WIAH’s founder was a child whose education continued because someone chose to help. That opportunity shaped his life—and inspired his commitment to helping children in Qui-Croit build futures of their own.
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Words in Action Haiti is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Donations are tax-deductible in the U.S.