Four pillars. One closed loop.
Every program decision is filtered through the lessons of one girl named Darline. Health came first. The meal mattered. School fees went directly to the school. A career path waited at the end — not just a diploma. Those four lessons are the four pillars.
What a child actually receives.
Most charities tell you what percentage goes to "the cause." We tell you what an actual child costs to fully support, at contracted rates, line by line.
Tuition is paid directly to the school on a published schedule. Uniforms are fitted, new, and belong to the child. Books match the national curriculum. Meals are billed monthly. Healthcare is locked at $15 per child per year by formal agreement with Sarepta Foundation — 40% of the standard rate.
This is the direct cost. With the English professor, in-country oversight, insurance, CPA review, and operating overhead amortised across the Year-1 cohort of 30, fully-loaded cost per child is approximately $2,333. Sponsors give at $1,500. Major donors close the gap.
| Cost Item | Annual |
|---|---|
| Tuition — paid to the school | $450 |
| Uniform — fitted, new | $75 |
| Books & Supplies — curriculum | $100 |
| Daily Meals — $25/mo · school days | $300 |
| Healthcare — Sarepta agreement | $15 |
| Direct Total per child / year | $940 |
English from Day One.
Every HCT child receives daily English-language instruction beginning in Year 1. Not a weekly elective. Not "if there's a teacher." Every grade. Every day.
English is the prerequisite for the Tech Center. It is the prerequisite for nursing licensure in many Caribbean countries. It is the language of global business-process outsourcing — the industry that, more than any other, has reversed the brain drain in countries like the Philippines and Jamaica. We do not assume English will appear. We build it in from the first day of first grade.
Annual English proficiency outcomes are published every year, by cohort, to all donors. If we are not getting it done, you will see that — and so will we.
The professor arrives in Year 3.
A dedicated technology professor joins the school in Year 3, when enrollment reaches 100 students. The combined English + Technology curriculum produces graduates who can compete for global BPO and remote-work roles — without leaving Haiti.
Why Year 3, not Year 1? Because a technology professor at 30 students is $267 per child. A technology professor at 100 students is $160 per child. At 250 students, it drops to $64. We add the professor when the math works — and not before. That discipline is how we keep the program scalable instead of running out of money in Year 4.
Technology cohort outcomes are published from Year 3 onward, with placement rates tracked separately from English proficiency.
A daily meal, tied to attendance.
Every HCT child receives a full meal every school day — $25 per child per month, $300 per child per year. The meal is delivered at school. Attendance is the requirement.
Why attendance? Because hunger is the single biggest predictor of dropout in primary school in Haiti, and dropout is what destroys every charitable dollar that came before. Tying nutrition to attendance keeps the child in the classroom and keeps the parents engaged. It also creates a daily accountability loop with the school: did the child eat, was the child present, did the work happen.
A permanent Nutrition Center is planned for Year 5, only after five years of documented demand and a successful capital campaign. We do not build infrastructure on hope.
Through Sarepta — at $15 a year.
Every HCT child has a full preventive and primary-care package through Hôpital Sarepta, locked at $15 per child per year by a formal Memorandum of Understanding effective March 15, 2026. That's 40% of the standard rate — secured because Sarepta has been on the ground in Cap-Haïtien for thirteen years and shares our commitment.
The package includes well-child screenings and annual wellness checks, vaccines and immunizations, deworming twice per year, vision and hearing screening, acute care, emergency stabilization at a 50% discount, biannual mobile clinics at HCT sites, and priority scheduling within 48 hours for urgent issues.
Healthcare comes before school. Because a child who can see, hear, and stay well is a child who can learn — and a child who learns is the only child for whom every other dollar is justified.
Graduates become employees. Employees fund the next generation.
By 2036, the HCT Tech Center opens with 100 seats and a $750,000 capital build. The first 100 graduates of the Foundation's English + Technology curriculum are its first hires. Their salaries fund the next pilot cohort's tuition, meals, and healthcare. The brain drain reverses, family by family, in Cap-Haïtien.
That's not a slogan. That's the line item in our 2036 budget.
See the full 10-year plan →Four pillars. One annual sponsorship.
$1,500 funds one child through one full year — all four pillars, from day one.