Interview With
Dieuseul Delicier
The sun had already set in Deschapelles, but it was still 90 degrees when Delicier, after a ten hour shift at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital, walked into the dimly lit courtyard for our interview. I had never met him before but, as if to help me to recognize him, he still wore a stethoscope around his neck after leaving his shift at the hospital…
Read Delicier's StoryJames Kerby Estimé
James Kerby Estimè, a Crosby Fund scholarship alumnus in medicine, founded a medical clinic in his hometown of Liancourt in 2019. Dr. Estimè sees 30 patients a day and his clinic has become an essential part of the community.
In His Own Words
Fednor Sidort
I am a 2012 university graduate of the Crosby Scholarship Program. In 2015, I was very proud to be hired as the new Crosby Fund for Haitian Education Program Administrator. I want to share a little about my life to this point in time.
Read Fednor's StoryDucasse Alphonse
Ducasse Alphonse graduated from St. Ignace School of Teaching in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in the Science of Education. Prior to his graduation, he helped during the summer months tutoring students in mathematics. We realized he was a talented teacher.
Read Ducasse's StoryThelmy Guerlande
Thelmy Guerlande grew up in a very large family. She had 8 other siblings and the likelihood of an impoverished young girl with 8 siblings going to school for any meaningful duration in rural Haiti is close to zero.
Read Thelmy's StoryInterview With
Robens Ocean
Like many rural children growing up in Haiti’s Artibonite Valley, Robens Ocean, from a very early age, worked in the fields alongside his parents, tending goats and hauling water, but mostly he picked rice.
Read Robens' StoryFeguy Francois
Feguy Francois and Ronsard Raymond, both Crosby Fund graduates, recently founded a Solar & Electrical Startup in the Artibonite region. Trained at Canado Technique in electromechanics with an extra year of solar engineering training, these two entrepreneurs have received a Crosby Fund grant to start their own business in electrical and solar installation serving their hometown of Verrettes. Congratulations to them both!