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Yéle Haiti is a grassroots movement that builds global awareness for Haiti while helping to transform the country through programs in education, sports, the arts and environment. Yéle’s community service programs include food distribution and mobilizing emergency relief. Grammy-Award winning musician, humanitarian and Goodwill Ambassador to Haiti Wyclef Jean founded Yéle Haiti in 2005.

For more information about our programs please visit our previous website.

Education

With little state support for education, Yéle Haiti has created a range of programs to improve the quality of education and ensure more children from poor and disadvantaged families can attend school.

  • Primary School Scholarships: sponsoring the education of 4,500 children throughout Haiti.
  • University Scholarships: sponsoring 12 top ranking students in Haitian universities.
  • Boy’s Rehabilitation Center: giving imprisoned child gang members a second chance.
  • Yéle Cuisine: employing women to cater meals for children in six schools without kitchens.
  • School Feeding: dry food distribution to around 7,000 families of children in targeted schools.

Sports

With almost no public or school funding for organized sports, Yéle Haiti supports a soccer program for at-risk youth and a range of sports events for youth. 

  • L’Athletique d’Haiti: supporting a soccer and tutoring program for 650 youth from the slums.
  • Sports Events: sponsoring tournaments, clinics and sports equipment for young players.

The Arts

With high levels of illiteracy, Yéle Haiti uses music and entertainment to inform the public about development and social issues, while at the same time providing training to at-risk youth. Celebrities are enlisted to help raise the country’s international profile. 

  • Music Studio: providing jobs and vocational training in a new state-of-the-art facility being built in Cité Soleil.
  • National Youth Orchestra: classical orchestral training and performance for at-risk youth.
  • Art School: support for an art school in Jakmel, including commissioning students for design work abroad.
  • Remember Haiti: scanning and making available rare historic books about Haiti’s founding.
  • Spotlight Haiti: engaging celebrities to help raise Haiti’s international profile.
  • Yéle Cinema: free outdoor projection of Creole-dubbed films in slums without electricity.

Environment

With less than two percent tree cover left nationwide, Yéle Haiti is responding with a  new community-based tree planting, environmental education and social marketing initiative along with ongoing support for an environmental education initiative. 

  • Yéle Vert: community-based agroforestry, environmental education and social marketing that is in development in Gonaives.
  • Ecole Verte: environmental education camping trips and tree planting for youth.

Community Service

With little support available for vulnerable families, Yéle Haiti distributes food to those in need throughout the slums of Port-au-Prince and mobilizes emergency relief in response to natural disasters and humanitarian crises. 

  • Food Distribution: assisting the World Food Programme in distributing rice, beans and oil to families in the slums of Port-au-Prince.
  • Emergency Relief: mobilizing relief following natural disasters and humanitarian crises.

North America

  • Yéle Student Outreach: college and university students rallying in support of Haiti.
  • Help Haiti: Canadian students giving 25¢ each to sponsor scholarships for Haitian students.