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Boussole Orphanage is home to boys and girls from birth to 16 years of age. While some of the children are orphans, many have been abandoned to the home by a single parent who is unable to provide for them due to extreme poverty. Most of the children come with medical conditions resulting from years of malnutrition, but improve quickly with three nutritious meals a day, vitamins, necessary medicines, and purified drinking water. The orphanage is also responsible for educating the children under our care. Foundation Boussole believes that education is the key out of endemic poverty. The Foundation also provides emergency shelter for abused children.


Community Outreach is a big part of our organization. The consequences of HIV/Aids are numerous and devastating. As well as leaving many children orphaned, it also results in many women becoming widows. The widows have to support their families with no job and no income. As a result, sacrifices have to be made, which usually begins with the children's education. We also support women who have been abandoned by their spouses and are struggling to make ends meet. Foundation Boussole is trying to provide financial support to these women in order that they may start up small businesses. In turn, we hope that these women will become self sufficient and so being able to meet their own living expenses as well as the costs of other dependants. Foundation Boussole does not only support orphans and vulnerable children, but also run community classes, clinics, counseling support groups for women and children, sex education and vocational education courses. We also provide literacy training.


Some children in communities cannot afford to go to school. This is either due to the fact that they are orphans and that their remaining family cannot afford to educate them or that they have lost their father and their mother cannot support them financially. Without help these children are likely to struggle in the future, due to a lack of an education, skills and social inclusion. The organization has been running a community school in Marlique, Petion-Ville. The organization then arranged to rent a building privately owned to be converted into a school. Supplies were bought and teachers were recruited. Classes were set up for the nursery age group as well as grades 1 to 8. For some of them, this was their first experience of a formal education, for others, this was the first time they had been at school after years of absence. Our school works on building social skills as well as basic formation such as hygiene, etc. We encourage our children to develop critical thinking skills. The school is open for children in the neighbor even those who are unable to pay. Both full and partial scholarships are available to children who are unable to pay the fees. We also provide the children with breakfast and lunch.