Students

Public Policy & Planning – Class of 2016

One day when Ed-Philippe was in primary school, he came home with poor marks on his report card and his grandmother was very upset. (more…)

Agronomy – Class of 2018

Joseph’s father died when he was nine and his mother when he was 12, leaving his sister, who was just three years older, to care for Joseph and their younger brother. (more…)

Agronomy – Class of 2018

Fegens is one of eight children in a family that always valued education. With no schools in his hometown that offered instruction beyond the tenth grade, Fegens and a younger sister moved to Cap Haitian to live with an older brother in a single rented room. (more…)

Computer Science – Class of 2017

In order to send him and his four sisters to school, Pierre Charles’s family supplemented his father’s modest monthly income of $200 as a school administrator by renting out two rooms of their four-room house. (more…)

Law – Class of 2018

Describing her life growing up, Maureen says, “We were a happy and tight-knit family. Though we lived modestly, my siblings and I always felt like we had a bright future.” Her father supported the family of eight children working as an engineer. (more…)

Business Administration – Class of 2016

Dulene grew up in a town on the Dominican border with her mother and three brothers, one of whom is mentally disabled. Her mother is diabetic and too sick to work, and her father lives in the Dominican Republic. (more…)

Computer Science – Class of 2016

Joseph-David is the youngest of four children; their father died when Joseph-David was four, their mother died when he was 13. “Life after my parents’ death was very difficult,” he says. “Sometimes we only ate once a day and often the neighbors would have to help us.” (more…)

Agronomy – Class of 2017

John-Wesly is from a small town in rural northern Haiti. He is the oldest of seven children, his mother is unemployed, and his father works half day as a teacher and tends to their small family farm in the afternoons. (more…)

Education – Class of 2017

Fabiola is the fourth of five children. Growing up, her father worked as a merchandise inspector while her mother stayed home to take care of Fabiola and her siblings. (more…)

Architectural Engineering – Class of 2017

Arschad says that as a young child, he “suffered less than many people in the country.” But, like for many Haitian families, this economic security was fragile. When Arschad’s father, a plumber and electrician, injured his arm in an accident, leaving him unable to work, day to day existence became a challenge for the family. (more…)