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COJEHA has always believed the way to Haiti's betterment is through uplifting its youth. We have faced many different challenges, and we are still here. Growing new roots in the Northeast.
COJEHA was founded in 2017 by Nancy Michel with a simple conviction: that Haiti's youth deserved more than what the system was giving them.
When gang violence forced us out of Port-au-Prince in 2023, we kept paying school fees. The School Grant Program grew by over 80% in 2024 to 2025.
First education programs launch.
Food, books, clothing, celebrations.
Entrepreneurship across 14 communes.
Forced out. Mission stays.
Northeast restructure. New chapter.
COJEHA was founded in 2017 by Nancy Michel. We started with one belief: keep children in school, and you change the trajectory of a life.
We started with school fees and the belief that keeping a child in a classroom could change the trajectory of a life. Over the years that belief became programs: agribusiness training, youth sustainability competitions spanning 14 communes, feeding programs and tree-planting ceremonies.
When gang violence forced us out of our Port-au-Prince headquarters in July 2023, we made one choice: the children stay in school. We supported fewer than 100 children in 2023 to 2024. Through our GoFundMe and the generosity of supporters, we reached over 200 in 2024 to 2025. Our goal is to more than double that for the upcoming school year.
Now we are replanting in the Northeast, on land we own in Fort-Liberté, 25 hectares in the locality of Perard. With a plan bigger than anything we have done before, because the need has only grown.
We don't only show up when things are going well. COJEHA is there when a family cannot afford school fees, and when a young person is incarcerated and needs a meal. We cover the full arc.
We pay school fees so that financial hardship is never the reason a child stops learning. Education is the foundation everything else is built on.
Mobile health clinics bring free care directly to isolated communities and prisons. We believe access to healthcare should not depend on geography or circumstance.
When youth succeed, we celebrate them. Our investment ceremonies exist because excellence deserves to be seen, and community presence is its own form of support.
From afterschool programs to a new community center in the Northeast, we are building infrastructure that stays. The goal is never a single intervention. It is a generation lifted.
Nancy Michel founds COJEHA. First programs in Trou-du-Nord.
Flagship care program. Second edition in Capotille, March 2022.
Farm management across 14 Northeast communes.
Gang violence forces COJEHA from Port-au-Prince. School fees keep being paid.
Restructured in the Northeast. Official relaunch with partner schools.
We are not starting over. We are building on everything we have learned, on land we own, in the Northeast.
A permanent campus, fish farming on the lake, agribusiness revenue sustaining education and a Port-au-Prince headquarters anchoring it all. This was the plan we built toward for seven years.
Gang violence displaced our staff from Port-au-Prince in July 2023. We stripped back to one non-negotiable decision: the children stay in school. We supported fewer than 100 students that year.
We reached over 200 students in 2024 to 2025, more than double the year before. Our goal is to double again. We are building a multifunctional community center in Fort-Liberté that will serve as COJEHA's permanent Northeast headquarters, housing a community center, classroom and commercial kitchen, all on land we own.
Our programs are built around one question: what does a child in the Northeast actually need to stay in school, stay healthy, and have a future?
Covering school fees so no child is turned away
Healthcare where the system does not reach
Recognizing excellence and building community
Rooted in Haiti's land, returning soon
Real stakes, real futures — returning 2026
Building relationships that outlast any funding cycle
Photos from our programs, ceremonies, land, and community events across the Northeast. Click any album to expand.
Farm management training across 14 Northeast communes, 2023
Recognition, prize distribution, and community celebration
Caring for Our Children, food, books, clothing, 2022
25 hectares in Perard, the future site of COJEHA's community center
Official restart with partner schools in Fort-Liberté, April 2025
Students presenting sustainable development ideas, 14 communes
We move when we have the means. Here is where we are and where we are headed.
COJEHA is run by people who are from here, for here. We are not a foreign intervention. We are neighbors who decided to act.
Erika joined the team as a consultant in 2020 and officially took the position of Co-Executive Director in 2024, leading the organization's restructuring and global funding efforts.
Mith-Suca has been a foundational executive leader for COJEHA since 2018. She was part of the core team during the Port-au-Prince years and has been instrumental in the organization's subvention and school grant programs from the beginning.
Every contribution goes directly to children's school fees, program operations, and the construction of our community center. No amount is too small to matter.
Donate via GoFundMeWe closed out the 2024 to 2025 school year having supported over 200 students, more than double what we managed the year before. Enrollment for the 2025 to 2026 cycle is underway and our goal is to more than double again. Construction planning for the Fort-Liberté community center is in progress. Mobile health clinic partnerships are being finalized. Every dollar donated right now goes directly into the next cycle.
Donate nowClick any amount to go directly to GoFundMe.
