The New York Haiti Project Inc. is a New York not-for-profit corporation that was founded to provide financial support for efforts to expand and increase the effectiveness of education in Haiti and to assist the poor and impoverished in Haiti.

Our mission is to partner with the people of Martel, Haiti, building relationships of trust, hope, and love among our communities, to work together for a better future.

We have five core values:

Love

Hope

Trust

Partnership

Service

The New York Haiti Project, Inc. provides financial support for a variety of needs to St. Luke’s School in Martel, Haiti.  The school currently serves approximately 230 students in grades K-9.  Our support is intended to enable the school to expand its facilities and to increase the scope and quality of its educational programs. Our long-term goal os for the school to sustain itself.

As St. Luke’s School achieves its objectives and becomes self-sustaining, the New York Haiti Project will evaluate other projects to achieve our mission of expanding and increasing the effectiveness of education in Haiti and assisting the poor and impoverished in Haiti.

We are a collaborative of Episcopal Churches in New York that partners with St. Luke’s Episcopal School in Martel, Haiti. Martel is a tiny village about three hours west of Port au Prince. See map below.

Education has been an important part of the Episcopal church in Haiti ever since the Rev. James Theodore Holly came to Haiti in 1861. Every Episcopal church in Haiti has at least one school attached to it.

Our goal is to continue adding a grade level or two until we complete the secondary school, which is 12th grade.

Here in the Diocese of New York our goal is to create a stable base of supporters who love Haiti. Support comes in the form of prayers, presence and money. We envision dozens of parishes across the diocese praying for St. Luke’s Martel as part of their regular intercessory prayers. We envision regular mission trips to Martel when conditions in Haiti become more stable. And we envision enough financial support to continue to fund the operation and expansion of the school.