Haiti is the safest country in the Caribbean and 4th safest in the Caribbean and Central America.

- Global Peace Index 2017 

55% of the Haitian population is under the age of 25, and only 29% of Haitians 25 and older attended secondary school.

- CIA Factbook 2015  - USAID 2015 

“Haiti, where negritude stood up for the first time to say that she believed in her own humanity."

- Aimé Cesaire, Martiniquan author and politician 

50% of children in Haiti do not go to school. Of those that do, 30% will abandon before third grade, 60% before sixth grade.

- World Bank 2013  - UNICEF 2008 

Haiti is the only nation established through a successful slave revolt, from French colonial powers, and the world’s first formerly colonised black nation.

- Susan Buck-Morss, “Hegel and Haiti” 

Half of public sector teachers in Haiti lack basic qualifications and almost 80 percent of teachers have not received any pre-service training.

- USAID 2015 

After gaining its independence from France on January 1, 1804, Haiti became the second oldest independent nation in the Western Hemisphere, after the U.S.

- CNN 

90% of Haitian primary schools are non-public; the majority of schools in Haiti are managed by religious organisations or non-profits.

- USAID 2007 

“The rich culture, the diversity and the beauty will delight. The only danger in Haiti is once you go, you may not want to leave.”

- Bocchit Edmond, Haitian Ambassador to the UK 

“Haiti is a country of youth, which means it’s a country that has a future. We must stop saying Haitians are resilient and begin to say Haitians are capable”

- Michaëlle Jean, third Secretary General of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie 

"In spite of its poverty, its political upheavals, its lack of resources, Haiti is not a peripheral place, its history has made it a center."

- Yanick Lahens