EDUCATION: “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” G.K. Chesterton The Observer (1924) and “Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”  Lord Henry Brougham (1778-1868).

AGRICULTURE: “… whosoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind and do essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.”  Johnathan Swift (1667-1745) Agriculture is the key development that is leading to the rise of human civilization.

TECHNOLOGY: The branch of Knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science and pure science.

The H.E.A.T. Foundation strives to make Education the main link the chain of the four major sectors: Health, Education, Agriculture, Technology; from pre-school to higher education to vocational, youth and adult training and life skills. The H.E.A.T. Foundation views the transfer of knowledge as the ultimately vehicle that will eradicate dependency in our world and truly gives rise to individual and universal freedom.

The Crisis in Haiti:
The H.E.A.T. Foundation, in collaboration with Le Lycee Franco-Americain International School (LFA) and International School of Broward Charter School was one of the first responders to Haiti’s crisis, dealing with collapsed orphanages, evacuating children and displaced families to safer areas caring for the injured, distributing food, medical supplies and providing temporary shelter to some of the most unfortunates in the region. The H.E.A.T. Foundation also united a significant number of adopted orphans with their adoptive families in the USA, Canada and France. (Only the children who had some form of paperwork started before the earthquake)

 
School children establish pen-pal and friendships with children in Haiti after the earthquake.

The H.E.A.T. Foundation continues to distribute food, supplies and medical care to some of the most unfortunates in the region. Most recently, a team of Medical Professionals has travelled twice to Haiti under the Directions of Doctor Clinton Jules (FLA) and provided the desperately needed Diphtheria and Tetanus vaccinations to a large number of Children.
                               He lost everything but his smile

The most immediate needs are to give children and families the much needed logistical, support to meet their basic daily needs, such as food, school lunch, shelter, medical, hygiene. The H.E.A.T. Foundation has organized with local schools in addition to the the schools and orphanages under its umbrella in the Plateau Central Region, to enroll children displaced by the earthquake. The H.E.A.T. Foundation has also implemented procedures to identify bonafide orphans and children separated from families, also to provide temporary shelter, food and medical care.  

1. The H.E.A.T. Foundation currently has over 130 acres of land in Thomonde, which is located approximately 2 hours Northeast bound from Port-au-Prince (a short drive from the “Zanmi La santé / Partners in Health compound). The National Highway #3, most of which is recently asphalted, is in very good condition, The Thomonde River is relatively clean and many other small streams are on the property and also some public running water in town. Prior the earthquake, the property was being developed for agricultural and a goat dairy farm projects. There is a large amount of shade/fruit trees that have been added, as a result of the re-forestation program that has been instituted. 

 2. The H.E.A.T. Foundation is responsible for three elementary schools in the community surrounding the property (Academie Internationale de Maria-Mercedes Familia (1,2,3). The goal is to merge two of them due to their proximity, expand them to accept many more of the displaced students who currently have no access to any kind of education. It is also its goal to establish a Polytechnical High School as part of the community development. There is currently no other high school in the immediate area. In the central part of Thomonde, The H.E.A.T. Foundation is responsible for over 3000 displaced children and families being cared for through alliances with local schools and host families in the Central Plateau region. In addition, it also cares for 120 university students from Port-au-Prince, currently living in a tent camp in Mirebalais. 

3. The H.E.A.T. Foundation has a strong alliance with Ecole AWMC, the largest school in Thomonde, which has accepted the largest number of displaced children from Port-au-Prince. Many of those children are bonafide orphans. We are working very closely to rebuild and expand the elementary schools under that alliance to accommodate the current and the anticipated influx of students in the fall of 2010. The High School is also a primary focus of ours. It needs to be rebuild and we look forward to rebuild it as an exemplary Technical High School as well and to attract the technical expertise to that region of Haiti.

4. Montrouis (Trou Baguette) is the other site, located 45 minutes northwest bound from Port-au-Prince. a one hour boat ride to the Island of La Gonave, where The H.E.A.T. Foundation collaborates with the small but functioning hospital and staff. Ecole Bon Samaritain and House of Hope are also under the supportive umbrella of the H.E.A.T. Foundation.  Plans are being evaluated to build and a High School and a medical clinic in that region. The nearest hospital is one hour in either direction. Most recently, two of the children from the orphanage were very sick and during the drive to and from the paid hospital with no real access to decent medical care, we all agreed that this is a need that can no longer ignore.  
 

  THANK YOU for  YOUR GENEROSITY!