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ca. 50% of the Haitian population is illiterate
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Help educate Haiti's future teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs and leaders - Receive a unique Thank You Postcard and gift three more…
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The Project
We started MyPostcard to give people the opportunity to share their most important moments with the people they love. We soon realized how our products and their reach could be used to support positive ideas and social causes.
The Rotary E-Club of Wallstreet’s Haiti Education Initiative is the newest project we support.
100% of each donation goes directly to the cause*. As a Thank You each donor will receive a personalized thank you postcard as well as has the option to send three additional free postcards to a friend, relative or partner and help to spread the message.
At the completion of your order, please register an account or enter your email address to receive promo codes for your three free postcards and more information about the thank you card in January, via email.
For those who donate more than 50 EUR, the students of ECLUJE primary school prepared a special video postcard for you.
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80% of Haitians live in poverty
Unemployment in formal sectors is 90%
For every 100 children
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60
will go to school
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42
will complete primary school
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20
will attend secondary school
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5
will graduate from high school
The beginning
Today, nearly half of Haiti’s population is illiterate, and only 1 in 20 will ever graduate high school. In 2010, Fresly Toussaint, a Port-au-Prince native, took action to change his community to provide a better future for the generations to come and he founded ECLUJE primary school (Ecole Communautaire Lumière de Jésus). In 2019 the Rotary E-Club of Wall Street helped take the next step and financed the construction of a new school building.
The School
ECLUJE primary school (Ecole Communautaire Lumière de Jésus), located in a working-class neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, is offering tuition free education to the most vulnerable of the community, teaching from 1st to 6th grade. - Besides regular school operation, ECLUJE primary school offers evening classes for illiterate adults as well as frequently organizes community events like the drawing competition, creating the MyPostcard Collection on this page.
Our Goals
Already considered the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, the island nation of Haiti faced multiple calamities in 2021. In addition to the Covid Pandemic, the country’s south was struck by a powerful earthquake and the assasination of its President Jovenel Moise put the country into a economical downwards spiral.
Due to the economical crisis, we want to relieve parents from their existing duties of providing a school uniform and school material for their children as well as continue to invest in the school building and operation to elevate the quality of education we can provide.
What will the donation be used for?
Your donation will be used for the overall operation and extension of the school.
With your donation we can buy:
How you donate
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Select donation amount*
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Design postcard
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Send postcard and do something good
* MyPostCard is donating 100% of the proceeds to Rotary Gemeindienst Deutschland e.V. (RDG), who is forwarding 100% of the donation to the project in Haiti - For donations requiring a receipt, please donate directly to RDG (Rotary Deutschland Gemeindienst e.V. / Deutsche Bank AG / IBAN: DE80 3007 0010 0394 1200 00 / BIC: DEUTDEDD / Subject: Club C21519 Project P2301/Haiti) and email details to school@wallstreetrotary.org
Art Competition
In November 2021 ECLUJE primary school hosted a painting competition at eight schools on the subject of "Ayiti Pam M nan (My Haiti…)" where students were asked to draw their vision of Haiti.
Seen through the eyes of young people the images in this collection are a testament to the aspirational spirit of youth, pride of country and visions for a hope-filled future.
We see bustling, cheerful towns, busy colorful villages, with churches, schools, hospitals, roads. Other drawings show a deep pride of the country’s struggle for independence with images of the nation's founding father Toussaint Louverture.
MyPostcard is an app which allows you to send your own photos as real postcards anywhere worldwide. From a selection of over 50,000 designs, users are able to select the appropriate template to match their image, text and occasion, and personalize it accordingly.
MyPostcard takes care of the printing, stamping and worldwide shipping of postcards.
Rotary International is an organization where People of Action: neighbors, friends, and problem-solvers share ideas, join leaders, and take action to create lasting change. Rotary International consists of 32.000 clubs. The Rotary E-Club of Wall Street NY (RCWS) started its first project in Haiti in 2013 helping young entrepreneurs to grow their businesses. - In 2019, the Rotary E-Club Wall Street NY, with the support of the Rotary Club Gronau-Euregio, started the initiative to collect donations for a new building for the ECLUJE primary school - with the aim of supporting the great work of the school.
Sfaira Foundation is a Canadian non-profit organization that brings people together to fund projects that provide high impact, sustainable solutions to community development issues in Canada and around the world.
Sfaira Foundation was the first international organization supporting ECLUJE by committing teachers salaries and providing organizational guidance since 2018.
