Christmas 2025! Celebrating BIG Changes to our Projects and Transformations amidst Haiti's Trauma.

Beautiful family and friends,

As we celebrate during this Christmas and New Year Season, we are again so very grateful for you all! You have helped us partner with our leaders and communities in Haiti to bring some BIG CHANGES this year!

I want to mention some fabulous but hard truths that have driven us forward this year into new and risky - but exciting developments!  

A healthy nonprofit is one who’s programmatic goals and activities directly connect to the independence and capacity-building of vulnerable communities. In other words, a healthy nonprofit is actively working themselves out of a job. That's what Frontier Projects Haiti eventually hopes to do! Radical! This hasn’t often been the case with most nonprofits and humanitarian groups in Haiti and around the globe.

Frontier Projects have partnered with Haitian NGO - Light for Living International Ministries (LIFLIM) for well over a decade. I am keenly familiar with harmful charity mindsets that plague this incredible country, a mindset that is not unique to Haiti. Scholars such as Dr. Lupton in his book Toxic Charity, Dambisa Moya in her book Dead Aid, Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert in their book When Helping Hurts, and many others have stressed the dangerous effects of our common giving practices. Philanthropy across the globe is often characterised by deep cycles of aid that cause an unhealthy dependence on the giver while stripping the receiver of dignity. The ‘normal’ in the nonprofit world hasn’t been working for a long time. 

This year Frontier Projects Haiti made a commitment and followed through - to dig deeper and do better. To BECOME the change needed. More than ever before - we partnered with LIFLIM in Haiti to be part of the change. 

We  all continue to have the divine opportunity to re-imagine what our partner communities could look like years from now without our interventions! How can we ensure we are on the right track? Here are my top 3 tips that we implemented more strongly than ever before, in 2025: 

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Reginald and Johanne Celestin

1.   We ask before we aid
Dialogue with local community leaders is the foundation of all of our support. It’s easy to assume and project our desires onto local communities, but it’s their community, and their voice should be the prominent one. Frontier Projects constantly ask about their dreams and goals. We ask about the assets they already have in their communities. We ask them what role we might play in helping them reach the goals they’ve set out for themselves. Ask before you aid, always.

2.   We find the real heroes  
It is common to see outsiders positioned as the “heros” instead of locals being the heroes of their own stories. Local leaders within their own communities should be the ones bringing solutions to their problems. They should be the ones taking leadership roles and guiding their communities to change - this is how Pastors Reginald and Johanne Celestin from LIFLIM always operate. They are the most invested in solving local problems because they are the most implicated. Our responsibility, therefore, is to affirm their dignity, invest in their capacity and then get out of the way and watch them transform their community.

3.   We evaluate our impact
Too often nonprofits celebrate their reach without acknowledging impact. If you’ve served 500 people but had little impact, your interventions may be wasting precious time and resources. Evaluation is key. This year we fully evaluated all our programs and made some radical changes! These are the DIFFICULT changes where we put in place firm steps to try and ensure we are always moving towards enabling communities to become self-sufficient over the coming  decade (or sooner)! 

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So at Christmas time, we are so grateful to acknowledge YOU ALL! OUR SPONSORS and SUPPORTERS!  YOUR faithfulness and generosity continue to steady all our partnerships and programs—even as the realities in Haiti remain deeply challenging.

Because of you, children are still being fed. Education is still happening. Care, safety, and dignity are still being extended where it is needed most. Your generosity is quite literally holding the line against food and educational insecurity —and we do not take that lightly.

We also want to pause and express our heartfelt thanks to our incredible Ambassador, Michael Crossland, whose unwavering love, advocacy, and support continue to strengthen this work in powerful ways.

At Christmas, we remember that light shines brightest in the darkest places—and because of you, the light of so many children's lives are continuing to shine, in Haiti.

With all our gratitude and thanks,

Cheryl and John and all the Frontier Projects Hait Team:
Dave, Tash & Simon, Jae, LaurieJane, Harvey & Kathy and Alyssa 💛
and our Haiti Ambassador - Michael Crossland

NEW PROGRAM IN CAVAILLON - THE LANTERN PROJECT

We are so excited that even despite Hurricane Melissa's devastation in Cavaillon, this year. we partnered with LIFLIM to launch announce a new child education and nutrition program in August 2025! We transitioned to this new safer area amidst the families in Cavaillon, that truly suffer from food and educational insecurity in this region.

Johanne Celestin in Haiti is leading this Program and we now have sponsors for 6 of the 8 families that have been identified as benefiting the most from partnerships with LIFLIM/FPH to see their children fed and educated through our LANTERN PROJECT at CAVAILLON SCHOOL! These are valuable partnerships! We don't do it for them - we partner with them!

We are excited about this new Program – and we thank you for walking with us as we continue to empower parents and their children.

LOVE COMMUNITY HOME - EVEN MORE CHILDREN RETURNED TO THEIR OWN FAMILIES - and some AWESOME TRADE COURSES UNDERTAKEN!

As you will notice from the photo below, there are now only 7 children living at Love Community Home as there is exciting news that we have been able to return Isaac Jeune (Boyr) to his family home - which is always incredibly exciting news for any child at LCH - and ultimately, our continued vision! Also, Christelle turned 18 and made the choice to now live with her new partner. We love her and wish her all the very best.

Other exciting news is that our social worker - Yndjy Belval - is now employed through Frontier Projects to be 100% available at LCH for welfare, education and social work with the children and youth. Congratulations, Yndjy!  Yndjy assists LCH's amazing Merline Vincent (House Mother).

All recently underwent their EOY examinations and all results were very pleasing! We also helped provide some fantastic summer courses last July / Aug - watch the video to hear all about this!

LCH's CONTINUED EDUCATION SUPPORT FROM HATCHLINGS, AUS!

Hatchlings Early Learning Group in Australia  -
Our incredible Educational Sponsors for LCH education! Rachel Langford and the whole team at Hatchlings - across their two campuses at Waterford and Rochedale in Queensland Australia - continue to support the education of all our LCH children! We so appreciate these amazing humans!

BOUVIER SCHOOL - BIG FINANCIAL AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES -
TOWARDS SELF-SUSTAINABILITY!

2025-26 will be an exciting year of transition for Bouvier School, as we implement a new operational model focused on shared responsibility between LIFLIM, FPH, the school staff, and the Bouvier community.

Key updates
* Community meetings from March–May were positive and productive. The Bouvier School Community Committee (SCC) has now been launched!
* June exams went well, and the school officially closed for summer holidays on 27th June with a GRADUATION CEREMONY and CELEBRATION - including a hot meal for all the students and staff!
* Parents now partner with FPH through our partner NGO - LIFLIM - to receive nationally accredited textbooks this coming year for every child, which will be used alongside copybooks to preserve their condition. 
* A new sponsorship structure is in place, and teacher training, school building inventories, and community feedback are all being coordinated.
* A new finance reconciliation plan is being developed to ensure that all school fees are properly collected, tracked, and deposited by Mr Jean (Bouvier School Administrator), each week.

* Ongoing and regular professional development workshops for all Bouvier teachers continued this year ,with the amazing support  of GOLDEN EGG HOME LOANS, Australia.
Thanks to Max and the team!

Empowerment through Education - Bouvier School again supported by iNSPIRED EDUCATION
iNSPIRED EDUCATION is an incredibly innovative Australian educational platform that supports many of the Bouvier students, through educational workshops run in Australia!With our heartfelt thanks to RASHAN at https://i-edu.com.au/kshare/​    Inspired Education Australia (IEA) has again this year, been in partnership with Frontier Projects Haiti - with the aim to facilitate the education of the students at Bouvier School, Haiti.  

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