Haiti Project

Soon after Rabbi Sid and his wife, Sandy, travelled to Haiti on the heels of the devastating earthquake in 2010, Adat Shalom launched the Haiti Project to support NICL, an independent, K-6 Christian school in Leogane founded and directed by Pastor Johnny Felix. Since that time, Adat Shalom has sponsored five service missions to Haiti and has been instrumental in building/creating at NICL a security wall; a reliable source of electricity via a solar tower; a 15-terminal computer lab; five new classrooms; a vegetable garden tended by students called Gan Hamazon (Garden of Sustenance); and a playground. Close to 100 Adat Shalom families have become Haiti Partners through their commitment of funds on a regular basis. Because of the deteriorating situation in Haiti, there are no future missions being planned but, this past spring, Adat Shalom raised over $35,000 to fund another expansion of the school—the addition of a 9^th grade classroom and the distribution of food baskets to some 200 households connected to NICL.  Over the years, Adat Shalom has learned from Pastor Johnny and our other NICL partners about humility, passion for education, love, resilience, and how to educate children holistically to ensure they thrive— lessons we have taken home to the US.

For more on Adat Shalom’s connection to Haiti please contact Mary Catherine Fish or Steve Sharpe