OUR VISION
A HAITI WHERE EVERY GIRL CAN PLAY, CREATE, LEARN, AND LEAD
OUR MISSION
To accompany Haitian girls in underserved communities as they improve their learning, health, and well-being through art-centered educational programs in safe and nurturing environments.
WHO WE SERVE
LIDÈ serves over 1,000 girls and young women ages 10-24 each year across eight sites in the remote regions of Gonaïves (Artibonite) and Les Coteaux (South). We focus on girls in these communities at the intersection of maximum vulnerability and maximum opportunity, where poverty, geographic isolation, and security concerns create the greatest barriers to advancement and the greatest potential for transformative change.
As a Haitian-led nonprofit, our field team is 100% Haitian and 87% women-led, ensuring cultural relevance, trust, and strong local leadership as we accompany these girls through art-centred educational programs and health and wellness support in safe and nurturing environments.
OUR PROGRAMS
We offer year-round programs in the creative arts, education, health, and parent and community engagement to adolescent girls in underserved communities across Haiti.
Mobile medical clinics, on-site nursing, psychosocial support, GBV prevention curriculum, health education, locally sourced daily meals
Literacy, scholarships, tutoring and mentoring, mobile computer lab, leadership training
Workshops, home visits, advocacy training
OUR IMPACT
IMPACT REPORTS
ANNUAL REPORTS
OUR STORY
Lidè was established by Author Holiday Reinhorn, Actor Rainn Wilson and Dr. Kathryn Adams as a short term project to provide healing through the arts for adolescent girls who had survived the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. During a two-week program, the three of them watched girls mend and find their own voices. Afterward, they watched those same girls try to hang on to those voices and teach other girls what they had learned. But they needed support, and so the idea of creating year-round programs aimed at building resiliency and empowering adolescent girls began.
Lidè started working in the Artibonite region of Haiti, in Gonaives, in January 2014 and initially partnered with CARE, who provided us with participants that needed schooling.
To hear more about the origin story of Lidè and it’s evolution, listen here, and here.
BE A CATALYST FOR CHANGE: Empower Haiti’s Girls
Join us in creating brighter futures for vulnerable girls in Haiti. Your support can spark transformation, inspire hope, and open doors to new opportunities. Here’s how you can make a meaningful impact:
Host a Fundraiser: Rally your friends to support Lidè’s mission.
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