ASSOCIATION

Lakou Association is a nonprofit agency founded in 2003 in the United States, headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices in Haiti committed to deepen public understanding about issues faced by Haitians to work at enabling initiatives to improve the quality of life of Haitians in Haiti and those living overseas (the Diaspora).

 

We believe civic engagement and education to be the core agents toward poverty alleviation. Thus we concentrate our efforts on the creation of education and infrastructural programs that would develop local leadership for the emergence of participatory development while prioritiz-ing higher learning efforts for children and adult to gain 21st century knowledge and skills to succeed and become productive members of the Haitian society and future competitors in the global marketplace.

 

Our main objectives are:

 

• Enhance public understanding of Haitians at home and the Diaspora to eliminate stigmas that the community harbors.

 

• Initiate innovative projects and capacity building for sustainable socio-economic growth.

 

• Higher learning advocacy and the development of educational opportunities according to Haitian realities and the millennia.

 

• Change Haiti’s image in Haiti and globally.

 

• Develop public and private alliance for the advancement of all Haitians.

 

• Initiate programs to end the brain drain caused by migration to a brain gain for the development and renaissance of Haiti.