Rebecca's Education and Empowerment Journey
Rebecca is a prime example of the power of Education and Empowerment in transforming lives. Rebecca was separated from her family at the...
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Stories of Impact
Lives Changed Forever
While our impact numbers speak for themselves, it is the people and the stories behind those numbers that speak loudest of all. We remain energized by the countless stories of growth, independence and progress taking place every day in southern Haiti.
Nathaline & Guerry - From Poverty to Promise
ESPWA is a center for families like Nathaline and Guerry’s who have moved from crippling poverty to hopeful progress since engaging with...
Meet Djeunica
We’d like to share just one family’s journey of transformation that was only possible with your support. The Dorescar family lives in one...
Yvenante's Gift of Independence
Yvenante is a 55-year-old mother of three daughters and grandmother to eight children ranging from 11 months to 10 years of age. Prior to...
Meet Fighter
Fighter is a 10-year-old boy who lives with his aunt, six other adults and three children intheir home in Guilleme, a community not far...
Widline's Hope
Education means life - a life of hope for the child, a life together for the family and life with promise for the community. The story of...
Meet Lorencia
Like many families in Haiti, the Timeau family faced an agonizing choice after losing their income in the aftermath of the 7.2 magnitude...
Meet Marlene & Joseph
Marlene and her husband Joseph are on their way toward social and economic independence. They are parents to four children and live in...
Meet Love
Love Yodne, age 20, will graduate from our Young Adult Empowerment Program (YAEP) in July. He was born into a family of seven in the...
Meet Stevens
Stevens is 22 years old and is a student in our Philo program at our ESPWA school. Philo is a university prep class and is a requirement...
Meet Denord
Denord is a farmer in Les Cayes, who has been farming since he left school in the fourth grade. Read his story, in his own words, of how...
Meet Sanon and Moye
Scripture tells us that we reap what we sow. For our friends in southern Haiti, this is a literal truth. Their labors in plowing, sowing...
Meet Junie
Junie, a single, impoverished mother of three from Kodio, Torbeck, refuses to accept things as they are. Instead, she’s hoping that one...
Meet Patricio
In November of 2021, Patricio was abandoned outside a Center known for caring for those with special needs. The Center could not take him...
Meet Fabiola & Rickens
At the young age of 5, Rickens was placed in an orphanage by his mother who did so in hopes of providing him with a brighter future. His...
Meet Lolia & Bernard
Lolia and her husband live in extreme poverty and have struggled for years to make ends meet for their two children, Bertholet and Lonia....
Meet Anel, Davidson & Jacques
All too often, children raised in orphanages have little motivation to learn self-sufficiency as they enter adulthood, resulting in full...
Meet Maxon
Maxon and his wife, Carline, yearned to give their five children a thriving future. But their extreme poverty made it impossible to...
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