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.

In our first school, Destiny Canaan 3, we received donations that allowed monthly tuition to be paid for 100+ students. In our second year, we ended up adding a second school in Mole ST Nicolas and started helping the 60 or so students there as well. Pretty quickly we learned that it was difficult to actually earmark money on a student by student basis, and some students get sponsored, and some don’t… not always on a fair basis. The vision had equability concerns but the financial benefits to the schools, the students and the parents became obvious.