The Colorado Haiti Project (CHP) is a state-wide non-profit
organization founded in 1989 to provide Colorado citizens
and youth the opportunity to extend aid to the poorest of
the poor in rural Haiti. Beginning in 1989 in a rural outpost
80 miles west of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince,
the Colorado Haiti Project today oversees a wide variety
of outreach efforts in the capital and across the lower peninsula
of Haiti, and a medical mission in Gonâives on the
upper peninsula.
Our flagship effort is the Episcopal mission of St. Paul's in
the village of Petit trou de Nippes, 80 miles west of Portau-Prince on the southern peninsula of Haiti. At Petit Trou
de Nippes, our comprehensive approach to community development
is unique in Haiti. The essential ingredients of
our model are traditional education, vocational training,
economic development, a medical, dental and community
health care system, nutrition, potable water and sanitation
system, all within the spiritual support system provided by
the Episcopal Mission of St. Paul's.
We coordinate with community leaders at every stage of
the project, toward an ultimate goal of a permanent community
infrastructure, which is maintainable by the local
community and replicable in other communities of Haiti.
Our method is "a hand up, not a hand out," and our efforts
at Petit trou reflect the goals of the community for itself.
The Colorado Haiti Project is entirely supported by private
contributions. We depend on your generosity.
CHP’s Annual Fund supports the full range of projects we oversee in Haiti. Click here to see what undesignated gifts to CHP have helped us do over the past two years. Click here to donate online.
Three Bishops’ Fund is our capital campaign for new construction at St. Paul’s Mission. Thanks to the generosity of Three Bishops’ Fund donors, the people of Petit Trou have built the Women’s Education and Resource Center and Phase One of the new St. Paul’s School building. To learn more about the
Three Bishops' Fund and our current focus, click here. To give to the Three Bishops' Fund click here.
Since 1996, CHP's Konbit Program has sponsored individual students at St. Paul’s School. The sponsorship, which is often given with $25/month payments, ensures that your child receives a hot lunch every school day, and, in times of drought or extra hardship, a student may take part of her lunch home to her family. Your Konbit Sponsorship also purchases school books and supplies, uniforms, tuition, and an annual physical for your student. Sponsors receive a photo and information about one of the students at St. Paul’s School. Help us meet our goal of one sponsorship for every child at St. Paul’s School. To learn
more about sponsoring a child, click here. To donate to the program, click here.
Water in Haiti
Follow this link to a series of Boulder Daily Camera articles on CHP and its volunteers.
