Tapio School, Haiti

Friends of the Community School of Tapio Haiti, Inc.  was incorporated in September 2020 and filed for 501(c)(3) status in February 2021.

In 2012, a church group was on an international mission to Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the Americas. Not only is it poor, but  a recent earthquake has added to the poverty. The government of Haiti is fraught with corruption and the needs of the people in the rural have largely been unmet. This includes education where children are only educated if the family can pay the tuition fees. During a free day on the mission trip, it was decided to travel to a rural area, up a rutted dirt road. There they encountered Joseph Jean, the school Director, who had started a school for the local children who could not afford the local school tuition fees. The school was a makeshift tent of surplus tarps and sticks in the ground 

Through the work of this church outreach, a school with two church buildings, 233 students in grades K through 9th grade, a staff of 15 teachers, 2 cooks and daily service of food to the students is now in operation