Fast Facts

Haiti

• Population: 8,900,000 
• 80% of the population lives in poverty
• More than half of the population lives on less than $1 a day
• More than one million primary school-age children have no access to education
• One in eight children die before the age of five
• 30% of students pass their national high school exam

Louverture Cleary

• Population: 350
• 90% of LCS grads have a steady job or are in college
• Students are housed, fed and educated for $7 a day
• Louverture Cleary School students transfer their knowledge to more than 200 children & adults through after-school literacy programs
• Five graduates have already become doctors and 15 more are in medical school to fight disease, injury and the high death rate
• Historically, 96% of LCS students pass their national high school exam every year
• Students come from the poorest areas of Haiti and need your support to become LCS graduates!