Building opportunity across the whole of life
Health, education and economic opportunity don’t exist in isolation. A mother’s health affects her child’s future. Education expands earning potential. Economic stability makes healthcare and schooling more attainable. HAPI works across these interconnected areas so that families have greater ability to shape their own futures.
Economic Opportunity
We prepare young people for productive livelihoods while strengthening family and community resilience through agro-economy initiatives, entrepreneurship, and access to savings and credit.
Health & Well-Being
Accessible, community-based care helps people live healthier, longer lives through prevention, maternal care, early diagnosis, and chronic disease management.
Education & Skills
Practical education builds confidence and opportunity through English, digital and entrepreneurial skills, and rotating vocational training that prepares youth and adults for work, further learning, and everyday life.
Our Work and the Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 1 — No Poverty
Building pathways toward greater economic security
Why
Poverty is more than a lack of income. Poor health can consume a family’s limited resources, lack of education and skills can restrict earning potential, and limited access to capital makes it difficult to build a livelihood. Together, these barriers can reinforce poverty across generations.
What?
HAPI addresses these interconnected barriers through affordable local healthcare, education and skills training, and pathways to economic opportunity. HAPITech develops English, digital, entrepreneurial and vocational skills. HAPIGro prepares youth through hands-on agro-economy experience, while our partnership with GCVF’s MUSO savings and lending groups expands access to savings, small loans and community-based economic opportunity.
Goal
Strengthen the ability of individuals and families to build greater economic security and agency over their futures.
Outcomes
Greater access to essential services, practical skills and economic resources; increased opportunities for youth and adults to earn income; and stronger capacity for families to make choices, withstand setbacks and invest in their futures.
SDG 3 — Good Health & Well‑Being
Quality healthcare, close to home
Why
In rural Haiti, distance, cost and limited availability of services can cause people to delay healthcare until illness becomes a crisis. Maternal complications, chronic diseases and other treatable conditions become far more dangerous when preventive care, early diagnosis and ongoing treatment are difficult to access.
What?
Through Felisane Health Center and community-based care, HAPI provides healthcare across the lifespan. StartRight supports women through pregnancy, safe delivery and postpartum care; HeartStrong provides ongoing hypertension and diabetes management; and HonorCare brings healthcare to people with disabilities who may be unable to reach the clinic. Primary care, vaccinations, cervical cancer screening, dental care, laboratory and diagnostic services, medications, and community health education strengthen prevention, early detection and treatment.
Goal
Make quality healthcare accessible close to home while strengthening prevention, early intervention and continuity of care.
Outcomes
More women receiving skilled maternal care; greater access to preventive services and early diagnosis; improved management of chronic disease; increased access to care for people with disabilities; and fewer barriers to receiving appropriate treatment before illness becomes a crisis.
SDG 4 — Quality Education
Practical skills that expand opportunity
Why
Education expands opportunity, but access to practical skills training can be limited in rural communities. Digital literacy, English proficiency, vocational skills and entrepreneurship can help young people and adults participate more fully in an evolving economy and pursue new opportunities.
What?
Through HAPITech, HAPI provides accessible learning close to home, including English, computer and digital literacy, and entrepreneurship. Rotating vocational training introduces practical skills such as electrical work and ceramic tiling based on community needs and available instructors. HAPI also creates opportunities for students to broaden their experience, including cross-cultural learning with university students in the United States.
Goal
Equip youth and adults with practical knowledge, confidence and relevant skills they can use for employment, entrepreneurship, further learning and everyday life.
Outcomes
Greater digital and English-language proficiency; increased access to vocational and entrepreneurial skills; stronger readiness for employment and further learning; and increased opportunities for participants to apply what they learn beyond the classroom.
SDG 5 — Gender Equality
Expanding choices, opportunity and leadership for women and girls
Why
Women and girls thrive when they have access to healthcare, education, economic opportunity and a meaningful voice in decisions affecting their lives. Barriers to healthcare, training and economic participation can limit women’s choices and reinforce inequality across generations.
What?
HAPI integrates gender equity throughout its work. StartRight provides maternal and reproductive healthcare that supports women in making informed decisions about their health, while cervical cancer screening expands access to preventive care. Women and girls are actively encouraged to participate in HAPITech, vocational training and economic initiatives, including opportunities in fields traditionally dominated by men. HAPI also creates professional and leadership opportunities for women within the organization.
Goal
Expand the opportunities and resources women and girls need to make informed choices, develop skills, participate economically and exercise leadership.
Outcomes
Greater access to maternal, reproductive and preventive healthcare; increased opportunities for women and girls to gain practical and economic skills; broader participation in traditionally male fields; and greater visibility of women as professionals, leaders and decision-makers.
SDG 8 — Decent Work & Economic Growth
Preparing people for productive livelihoods
Why
Young people need more than education—they need practical skills, experience and pathways to productive livelihoods. In communities where formal employment is limited, entrepreneurship and locally relevant economic opportunities provide additional ways to build a future.
What?
HAPI connects skills development with opportunities to put those skills into practice. HAPITech builds digital, entrepreneurial and vocational skills, while HAPIGro, our youth agro-economy initiative, gives young people hands-on experience in agriculture, animal husbandry, business and income-generating activities. Through our partnership with GCVF’s MUSO savings and lending groups, community members also gain access to savings and small loans that can support locally driven economic activity. HAPI itself creates formal local employment in a community where such opportunities are limited, while investing in Haitian staff development and leadership.
Goal
Prepare youth and adults to pursue productive livelihoods while strengthening locally led economic opportunity and resilience.
Outcomes
Increased job, entrepreneurial and livelihood skills; practical work and business experience for young people; greater access to savings and capital; increased opportunities to generate income; and stronger local capacity to create and sustain economic activity.
SDG 10 — Reduced Inequalities
Dignity, inclusion and opportunity for all
Why
Inequality can take many forms. Gender, disability, economic and social class, education, language, religion and geography can all affect a person’s access to services, opportunities and participation in community life. HAPI believes that dignity, ability and potential are not determined by social status or educational background.
What?
HAPI intentionally works to include people who might otherwise be overlooked. Through HonorCare, healthcare professionals visit people with disabilities in their homes, providing needed care while conveying a visible message of dignity and value. HAPI maintains nondiscrimination policies, actively includes people with disabilities in employment, and welcomes people across religious traditions. We use Haitian Creole for training whenever possible, helping ensure that language or educational background does not become an unnecessary barrier to learning and participation.
Goal
Reduce barriers to services, employment, learning and participation while strengthening the dignity and agency of people too often marginalized by disability, social or economic status, education, language or religion.
Outcomes
Greater access to healthcare and learning; increased opportunities for inclusive employment and participation; fewer language and educational barriers; and greater visibility of people from diverse backgrounds and abilities as valued contributors, employees and community leaders.