ABOUT US

Over a decade of supporting a better future for Haitians.

ABOUT US

Over a decade of supporting a better future for Haitians.

Our History

K-12 Haiti is the current evolution of what started out as Angels in Cowboy Boots (AICB) in 2010 when the Twining family staged a relief response to the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake. K12 Haiti is managed by the people at Roost & Root and has the same 501 C3, same EIN, same nonprofit company charter that it started with. Over the past decade, we’ve tried a lot of things to drum up interest in Haiti… AICB, Ekolaj, Native Egg, K-12 Canaan.

Haiti is a rough and tumble place that seldom conforms to the ideals of our western world. We’ve stumbled a lot. But with your help, we’ve continued to make progress. In the past several years, for a variety of reasons, we’ve settled on helping schools and K-12 Haiti is the evolution of our efforts to do more of that. Every day, not only do the Twinings, but dozens of employees at Roost & Root help to make possible continued progress. We aim to figure out how to do millions of dollars of good in Haiti.  Our slow but constant growth will fuel the wisdom and resources to make it possible.

Timeline of Significant Events

2010
  • 2010
      March

    2010 March  - Angels in Cowboy Boots

    AICB was formed in response to the devastating earthquake of 2010. The Twining family started an effort to put food in 5 gallon buckets to distribute in Haiti using extended family, friends and volunteers. In all, close to 20,000 buckets were filled with over 350,000 meals.

  • 2015
      October

    2015 October  - Native Egg Project

    In 2013 the Twining's formed Urban Coop Company, manufacturing backyard chicken coops on their property in Dripping Springs, TX. Almost immediately, thoughts of teaching Haitian children to care for small flocks of chickens so they could have eggs were envisioned. 

  • 2018
      Feb

    2018 Feb - K12 Canaan

    It was in the early part of 2018 that the organization had the vision of supporting schools in Canaan. Canaan is the resettlement community for those people that were displaced by the 2010 earthquake.  It exists on the side of a mountain about an hour outside of Port au Prince. The first school that was to be adopted was in Canaan... district 3. 

  • 2018
      June

    2018 June  - The Ekolaj Project

    The first project of the freshly formed K12 Canaan was The Ekolaj Project.  Ekolaj mean "tuition" in Kreyol... the native language in Haiti. The vision was to build a site and promote sponsorship of the tuition for students.  Individual student pictures were taken and posted on a website that allowed a donor to come sponsor as little as a month or up to a whole year of a students tuition. 

  • 2021
      June

    2021 June  - Haiti Joe Coffee

    During a trip in early 2020 right before COVID hit, the Twining's met executives at Rebo Coffee in Port au Prince and shared the vision of using coffee as cause product to raise money for schools. Not only did the good people at Rebo almost instantly agree to help, they have taken an integral role in helping leadership of K12 Haiti solve some of the cultural challenges of helping in Haiti.

  • 2021
      July

    2021 July - K12 Haiti

    Pretty quickly, money for the school in Mole ST Nicolas started being sent and was earmarked for the payment of teachers. We learned that if the teachers could be reliably paid... they came to work.  With the elimination of the schools single biggest expense, administrators were able to juggle tuition fees as family's cash flow allowed. They were able to offer more frequent snacks, and better access to water.

2022

Our History

K-12 Haiti is the current evolution of what started out as Angels in Cowboy Boots (AICB) in 2010 when the Twining family staged a relief response to the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake. K12 Haiti is managed by the people at Roost & Root and has the same 501 C3, same EIN, same nonprofit company charter that it started with. Over the past decade, we’ve tried a lot of things to drum up interest in Haiti… AICB, Ekolaj, Native Egg, K-12 Canaan.

Haiti is a rough and tumble place that seldom conforms to the ideals of our western world. We’ve stumbled a lot. But with your help, we’ve continued to make progress. In the past several years, for a variety of reasons, we’ve settled on helping schools and K-12 Haiti is the evolution of our efforts to do more of that. Every day, not only do the Twinings, but dozens of employees at Roost & Root help to make possible continued progress. We aim to figure out how to do millions of dollars of good in Haiti.  Our slow but constant growth will fuel the wisdom and resources to make it possible.

Timeline of Significant Events

2010
  • 2010
      March

    2010 March  - Angels in Cowboy Boots

    AICB was formed in response to the devastating earthquake of 2010. The Twining family started an effort to put food in 5 gallon buckets to distribute in Haiti using extended family, friends and volunteers. In all, close to 20,000 buckets were filled with over 350,000 meals.

  • 2015
      October

    2015 October  - Native Egg Project

    In 2013 the Twining's formed Urban Coop Company, manufacturing backyard chicken coops on their property in Dripping Springs, TX. Almost immediately, thoughts of teaching Haitian children to care for small flocks of chickens so they could have eggs were envisioned. 

  • 2018
      Feb

    2018 Feb - K12 Canaan

    It was in the early part of 2018 that the organization had the vision of supporting schools in Canaan. Canaan is the resettlement community for those people that were displaced by the 2010 earthquake.  It exists on the side of a mountain about an hour outside of Port au Prince. The first school that was to be adopted was in Canaan... district 3. 

  • 2018
      June

    2018 June  - The Ekolaj Project

    The first project of the freshly formed K12 Canaan was The Ekolaj Project.  Ekolaj mean "tuition" in Kreyol... the native language in Haiti. The vision was to build a site and promote sponsorship of the tuition for students.  Individual student pictures were taken and posted on a website that allowed a donor to come sponsor as little as a month or up to a whole year of a students tuition. 

  • 2021
      June

    2021 June  - Haiti Joe Coffee

    During a trip in early 2020 right before COVID hit, the Twining's met executives at Rebo Coffee in Port au Prince and shared the vision of using coffee as cause product to raise money for schools. Not only did the good people at Rebo almost instantly agree to help, they have taken an integral role in helping leadership of K12 Haiti solve some of the cultural challenges of helping in Haiti.

  • 2021
      July

    2021 July - K12 Haiti

    Pretty quickly, money for the school in Mole ST Nicolas started being sent and was earmarked for the payment of teachers. We learned that if the teachers could be reliably paid... they came to work.  With the elimination of the schools single biggest expense, administrators were able to juggle tuition fees as family's cash flow allowed. They were able to offer more frequent snacks, and better access to water.

2022