Wilkens L.
WILKENS is a 19-year-old student currently in the 11th grade at BGM High School. He was born in July 2005 and comes from the remote village of Boucandrice, nestled high in the mountains above Galette-Chambon. He lives with his parents, two sisters, and two brothers....
Berlyneda P.
BERLYNEDA is an 18-year-old student in the 11th grade at BGM High School. Born in June 2007, she lives in the remote village of Boucandrice with her mother, four sisters, and one brother. Life in Boucandrice is quiet and distant—especially from Galette-Chambon,...
Wilgama A.
WILGAMA is a bright and determined 13-year-old girl currently in the eighth grade at BGM High School, a well-respected institution known throughout central Haiti. She lives in the small village of Bonette, which is about a two-hour walk from her school. Every morning,...
Widline O.
WIDLINE is a bright and determined 10-year-old girl from the small village of Kadas in Haiti, near Galette-Chambon. Every day, she walks a long distance with a group of children from her village to attend BGM Primary School. Though the journey is tough, Widline never...
Naicha N.
NAICHA is a bright and determined 15-year-old girl who lives in the rural village of Galette-Chambon, Haiti. Although she is only in the third grade, her path to education has been anything but ordinary. Like many children in Haiti, Naicha has had to face the harsh...
Douselyne P.
DOUSELYNE is a bright and determined 11th-grade student at BGM High School. Born in October 2006, she lives in the rural village of Galette-Chambon with her parents, three sisters, and one brother. Life in the village has never been easy, but recent challenges have...
Jessica P.
JESSICA is a bright and determined 14-year-old girl living in the village of Galette-Chambon with her parents, two sisters, and younger brother. Born in April 2010, she is currently in the third grade at our BGM primary school. Although she is a bit behind in school...
Kervens P. (2)
KERVENS is a bright and energetic 13-year-old boy who was born in January 2012, just two days before the great earthquake in Haiti. He lives with his parents, sister, and brother in the rural village of Galette-Chambon. Kervens is currently in the third grade at BGM...
Loveson B.
LOVESON is a determined and hopeful 22-year-old student currently in the 11th grade at BGM High School. Born in December 2003, he lives in a small rural community called Baugé. Every day, Loveson walks a long distance to attend school—a journey that many might find...
Thony T.
THONY, a vibrant 20-year-old eleventh-grader at BGM High School, embodies resilience and determination. His path to education has been far from typical, marked by significant challenges that would have deterred many. Starting school at the age of eight, Thony has...
Dabens L.
Dabens is a bright 17 year old who is in the 11th grade at our BGM High School. His baby sister, Stecha, is also up for sponsorship. His parents are farmers who work long, hot days in the field trying to gather enough produce to sell at a local market when it is safe...
Chamaelle C.
Chamaelle is a precious eight year old from the village of Galette Chambon. She lives with her mother and brother. Her mother is a vendor whose husband died when the village was attacked by the gang. She has tried to continue selling things to support her...
Mialove P.
Mialove is a lively eight year old who lives with her mother, two sisters, and brother in the village of Galette Chambon. Her mother is a vendor who struggles desperately to sell things to support her family but over the last few years it has become very difficult....
Ritchamy V.
Ritchamy is a smart thirteen year old from the village of Jacquet near Galette Chambon. She lives with her mother, three sisters, and brother. They evacuated their home in Jacquet when it was attacked and her father was killed. They moved in with friends in...
Emerson A.
Emerson is a bright fourteen year old from the village of Bonet near Galette Chambon. He lives with his parents, three sisters, and four brothers. He and his family evacuated their home in Bonet when the gang attacked their village. They are living with family and...
Gaelle B.
Gaelle is a sweet, shy six year old from the village of Galette Chambon. She lives with her mother, six sisters, and two brothers. Her mother works as a sharecropper in a local garden picking beans. She gets to keep some of the produce to sell on her own at a local...
Anderson M.
Anderson is a sweet and shy four year old in our K1 class at BGM Maranatha School. He lives with his mother, six sisters, and two brothers in the village of Galette Chambon. His mother works as a sharecropper in a local garden picking beans. She gets to keep some of...
Techline J.
Techline is a lively eleven year old who is in the 4th grade at BGM Maranatha School. She lives with her aunt, three sisters, and two brothers (which are actually cousins). Her parents are no longer in Haiti because they could not find a means of supporting...
Failline J.
FAILLINE is a comical fourteen year old from the Bazil area near Galette Chambon. She lives with her father, brother, and sister. Her father is a vendor who tries to sell a variety of household goods at market. His wife used to do this while he worked in a local...
Nelcharles M.
NELCHARLES is twenty-two years old and he is thrilled to be in the 12th grade at BGM High School. All his life he has had to take turns with siblings going to school, so he is very far behind. However, that doesn't make him want to give up. In one more year, he...
Mydarling J.
Mydarling is a loving and happy seventeen year old who just entered the tenth grade at our BGM High School. She lives with her aunt, three sisters, and two brothers in the area called Bojè near Galette Chambon. Her aunt is a share cropper in a large garden and sells...
Lovemika A.
LOVEMIKA is precious ten year old in the 2nd grade in our BGM Primary School. He lives with his parents, two sisters, and five brothers in the village of Galette Chambon. His parents are share croppers who work in a large garden in Galette Chambon. They get to...
Kerby G.
Kerby is an eleven year old boy in the fifth grade in our BGM Primary School. He lives with his parents, two sisters, and three brothers in the village of Bonette near Galette Chambon. His parents are farmers and they try to support their family by selling produce...
Jamesley F.
Jamesley is sixteen year old who is in the third grade in our BGM Primary School. He is behind in school because his parents could not afford to send him to school for several years. He lives with his parents, two sisters, and two brothers. His parents are farmers who...
Gerlancia P.
GERLANCIA is precious eleven year old in the second grade at BGM Primary School. She lives in the village of Katrine near Galette Chambon with her parents, eight sisters, and two brothers. Her parents are farmers and the struggle to makes ends meet with a large...
Fritzgerald J.
Fritzgerald is a brilliant twelve year old in our BGM Primary School. He lives with his parents, three sisters, and six brothers. His parents are farmers and they work hard to sell the produce they grow at market, but they barely make enough money to support their...
Ezechiel P.
Ezechiel is an eleven year old in our BGM Primary School. He lives with his parents, three sisters, and three brothers. He lives with his parents, three brothers, and three sisters in an area called Bojé near Galette Chambon. His parents are farmers on a local farm....
Emmaniel P.
EMMANIEL is a bright thirteen year old in our BGM Primary School. He lives with his parents, three sisters, and three brothers. He lives with his parents, three brothers, and three sisters in an area called Bojé near Galette Chambon. His parents are farmers on...
Emaniela J.
Emaniela is a precious eight year old in our BGM Primary School. She lives with her parents, three sisters, and six brothers. The parents are farmers and they work hard to sell the produce the grow at market, but they barely make enough money to support their family....
Chinchaina F.
Chinchaina is a ten year old who is in the third grade in our BGM Primary School. She lives with her parents, sister, and three brothers. Her parents are farmers who take their produce to market to sell to provide for their family. They make decent money, but not...
Cherline N.
Cherline is a very smart thirteen year old fifth grader in our BGM Primary school. She lives with her parents, three sisters, and one brother. Her parents are share croppers on a local farm. They sell produce in the local market but they do not make enough money to...
Cherdensley D.
CHERDENSLEY is a lively little four year old in our BGM Preschool. He lives with his mother and brother in the village of Galette Chambon. His mother is a teacher in one of our schools. She doesn't make much money as a teacher, but she is thankful to have a...
Camilla P.
Camilla is a precious nine year old in the fifth grade at BGM Primary School. She lives in the village of Bojè near Galette Chambon with her parents, three sisters, and three brothers. Her parents are farmers and the struggle to makes ends meet with a large...
Benitha C.
Benitha is a loving and determined nineteen year old in our BGM secondary school who is in the 7th grade because her family has not been able to afford to put more than two of their children in school at a time. Benitha has always had to wait her turn to go to school,...
Woodensley S.
Woodensley is a precious little 4 year old in the K2 program at BGM Preschool. He lives with his father, seven brothers, and three sisters. Their mother died giving birth to a baby two years ago, so their father has been raising eleven children on his own. His father...
Wendy E.
Wendy is very bright seventeen year old senior at BGM High School. He lives with his parents, two brothers, and one sister in a small area called "Bwa Blan" near the village of Galette Chambon. He walks a long way to school every day, but he is very thankful to have a...
Welechnaida J.
Welechnaida is a bright sixteen year old from the village of Galette Chambon who lives with her father and three brothers. Her father is a professor in our BGM High School. Although it is great that he has a job that consistently provides income for their family, he...
Sephora D.
Sephora is a lively eighteen year old who is super excited to be a SENIOR at BGM High School!! She lives with her parents, one brother and one sister in an area of Galette Chambon called Boje (bo-jay). Her parents are vendors who try to sell goods at market whenever...
Santalie J.
Santalie is a bright, responsible, and determined nineteen year old from the village of Galette Chambon who lives with her single mother, five sisters, and one brother. Their father died in a motorcycle accident three years ago and all of the children have had to chip...
Mueva M.
Mueva is an adorable eight year old who lives with her aunt and two sisters in the village of Galette Chambon. Her aunt adopted Mueva and her sisters after their parents died from a tragic motorcycle accident two years ago. Mueva and her sisters help their aunt work a...
Kenold P.
Kenold is a very bright seventeen year old from the village of Galette Chambon who is in the 10th grade in our BGM High School. He has two sisters and they all live with their uncle because their parents were killed in gang violence two years ago. After his parents'...
Judelin D.
Judelin is a lively and loving seven year old in the first grade in our BGM Primary School. He lives with his parents and four brothers in the village of Galette Chambon. His parents are farmers and they both work hard in the garden so that they can take produce to...
Jasner M.
Jasner is a precious ten year old boy from the village of Kadas near Galette Chambon. He lives with his mother, four sisters, and two brothers. They lost their father to gang violence a few months ago and it left their mother in a very difficult situation. They have a...
Dieunika F.
Dieunika is a nineteen year old senior in our BGM High School. She lives with her mother, sister, and two brothers in a village called Grovo near Galette Chambon.Her father died of a heart attack while working the family garden. Her mother used to take produce to...
Chesnie Marie Elna C.
CHESNIE is an eighteen year old senior in our BGM High School from the village of Boucandrice. This is a small village up in the mountains that doesn't have any school options for children in that area. There is a fairly large group of children that leave their...
Wilberson P.
Wilberson is a bright and determined eighteen year old from the village of Galette Chambon who lives with his father, sister, and two brothers. He is only in the 5th grade right now because he and his siblings have been taking turns going to school. For the last few...
Venia S.
Venia is a sweet little four year old from the village of Galette Chambon who lives with her mother, three sisters, and one brother. Her mother is a vendor in the village who tries to go to market once per week to sell her goods to the public. This year had been hard...
Valdo M.
Valdo is a precious three year old from the village of Galette Chambon. He lives with hi smother, two sisters, and three brothers. His mother does not remember the date of when he was born because she gave birth to him in the same way she gave birth to his siblings -...
Staina J.
Staina is a bright and energetic six year old from the village of Galette Chambon who lives with her mother, sister, and brother. Her mother is a share cropper on a farm in the village. She works long, hot hours in the sun to try to provide for her little family. Her...
Smith J.
Smith is a precious little five year old who lives in the village of Galette Chambon with his parents and his brother. His parents have tried to run a small market out of their home with canned goods and pasta and other non-perishables but it has been very hard....