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  • IT Expert Shares Knowledge with SFST Students

    IT Expert Shares Knowledge with SFST Students

    Gary Boice, Michael Boice, Maryse King, William Philippe and Lindsay Anderson made many important connections with technology experts and entrepreneurs at this year’s Haiti Tech Summit, one of whom is Adib Khozouee. Adib was born in Haiti and his family has been involved in successful businesses in both Haiti and the US.

    After visiting technology companies with Adib in Colorado last summer, Gary invited him to tour our Tek4Kids organization in Jeremie, Haiti. They spent time in one of our partner schools, St. Louis High School, and with our St. Francis School of Technology (SFST) students. Knowing the students could benefit from Adib’s knowledge and experience in the IT field, Gary asked him to teach a class at SFST. Adib met with 7 groups of students through the course of one day to demonstrate how the Internet of Things works.

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  • A New Way to Support Tek4Kids!

    A New Way to Support Tek4Kids!

    Are you a Kroger’s shopper? If so, you can support Tek4Kids with each purchase you make! Simply enroll in the Kroger Community Rewards program and select Tek4Kids as the organization you want to support. Participants can enroll annually to keep supporting Tek4Kids year after year!

    Here are the simple steps to enroll:

    1. Create an account with Kroger.com or use the account you already have.
    2. Login to kroger.com/communityrewards.
    3. Click “I’m a Customer” on the Community Rewards page.
    4. Search for and select Tek4Kids or KM106, then click “Enroll.”
    5. You’re enrolled and every purchase you make will help Tek4Kids!

    We appreciate Kroger’s Community Rewards program and this opportunity to support Tek4Kids students in Haiti through technology education!

  • Accredited Wealth Management

    Accredited Wealth Management

    Please support our Tek4Kids Sponsors!
    Accredited Wealth Management is a proud sponsor at our Golf Scramble.

  • Jerry Mudd Consulting

    Jerry Mudd Consulting

    Please support our Tek4Kids Sponsors!
    Jerry Mudd Consulting is a proud sponsor at our Golf Scramble.

  • Penn Station

    Penn Station

    Please support our Tek4Kids Sponsors!
    Penn Station is a proud lunch sponsor at our Golf Scramble.
    Click here to visit their website.

  • Encore Technologies

    Encore Technologies

    Please support our Tek4Kids Sponsors!
    Encore Technologies is a proud sponsor at our Golf Scramble.
    Click here to visit their website.

  • Michelle Boice

    Michelle Boice

    Please support our Tek4Kids Sponsors!
    Michelle Boice is a proud Birdie Sponsor at our Golf Scramble.

  • Elite Heating and Air Conditioning

    Elite Heating and Air Conditioning

    Please support our Tek4Kids Sponsors!
    Elite Heating and Air Conditioning is a proud sponsor at our Golf Scramble.
    Click here to visit their website.

  • 2018 Golf Scramble Thank You!

    2018 Golf Scramble Thank You!

    On behalf of Tek4Kids, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all golfers, sponsors, in-kind donors and volunteers who supported the 6th Annual Golf Scramble for Haiti which was held on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 at Covered Bridge Golf Club.

    Thank you to our awesome volunteers who generously donated their time to another great golf outing!

    A special thanks to our Birdie Sponsors, Commonwealth Bank & Trust Company and Morgan Stanley Wealth Management for their continued and generous support!

    We would also like to recognize and thank our hole sponsors for their support: Boutin Chiropractic, Data-Strategy, Financial Architects Inc., LG&E-KU, Jerry Mudd Consulting, New Albany Heating & Air Conditioning, Relax The Back, Samtec, The Travel Authority – RuthAnn Hale.

    Silent auction items were donated by the following: Angels Envy, Boombozz Pizza & Taphouse, JD Becker Superstore, Helen Heddens, Hull & High Water, Irish Rover, Jackie Lydon, Louisville City FC, Louisville Stoneware, Muth’s Candies, Shalimar, Old Forester Distilling Company, Omni Hotels & Resorts, Relax The Back, Rhonda Schladand, LMT, Tek4Kids Employees, Toast On Market, The Post and Wild Eggs.

    This special event raises awareness of the needs of school children in Haiti and support of our ongoing projects with our partner schools in Jeremie and St. Francis School of Technology (SFST.) These projects include: providing reliable electricity to our nine partner schools, 10,000 gallons of purified water per week, 400 laptops and iPads for schools and supporting over 2,000 students; and our technology school which graduated its first class of 20 students! These students have been trained in networking, Microsoft Server, programming, database, web design and other areas of study including English. For the 2018-19 school year, Tek4Kids Haiti offices and SFST moved into our new facility with 8 classrooms, office space and internet cafe (for staff and students.) The extra space will allow us to expand our curriculum and outreach to the community. As always, 100% of the funds donated/raised directly support our projects.

    Please keep all of the above donors and sponsors in mind when looking for products or services; their support is integral in making our event a success!

    Thank you to the Covered Bridge Golf Club staff for their support throughout the scramble.

    We are truly grateful for your support and look forward to next year’s golf outing in September, 2019. We hope to see you there!

    Please visit our website www.tek4kids.org for information on our projects and how you can help.

    Gary and Cathy Boice
    Tek4Kids Founders

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  • “The Future is Ours”

    “The Future is Ours”

    What began as a dream to train students for a career in the field of Information Technology has become a reality! The first class of 20 students from the St. Francis School of Technology (SFST) graduated on July 25 at the Medal Church in Jeremie, with more than 500 community members, family and friends in attendance. The graduates selected the theme “The Future is Ours” in celebration of the occasion.

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  • “You Will Always Be My Teacher”

    “You Will Always Be My Teacher”

    Teaching English in Haiti had never been on my life’s “to do” list, so I was still somewhat dazed to find myself seated on a small charter plane as it lifted off from the Port-au-Prince Airport and headed southwest over the Caribbean toward the small town of Jeremie. There, Tek4Kids had just opened St. Francis School of Technology and English was part of the curriculum. I had no idea what to expect, nor did the twenty-four students who faced me on that first day of class. This group of eighteen young men and six women, many of whom hardly daring to meet my eyes, had never been taught by an American before.

    Now, three years later, as I prepare to attend their graduation, we know each other well. I have seen them transformed into young professionals, and they have chosen me as the “godmother” of their class. There is an affection and loyalty between us that I have rarely experienced with students in the United States. As I end my years of teaching for Tek4Kids in Haiti, I am touched by the sincerity of the students who tell me, “Even though you are leaving, you will always be my teacher.” — Rose Yunker

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  • 2018 Haiti Tech Summit

    2018 Haiti Tech Summit

    Lindsay Anderson, Gary Boice, Michael Boice, William Philippe and I participated in the 2018 Haiti Tech Summit held June 21-23 at Cote Des Arcadin, Haiti. It was one of the most positive events I have experienced in Haiti! Christine Souffrant Ntim, founder of the Haiti Tech Summit organization, also known as the Global Startup Ecosystem (GSE), opened the conference with the declaration that “Haiti is not open for business, it is open for disruption.” Her statement set the tone for the activities of the two-day summit. The Haiti Tech Summit is part of a 13-year initiative of the GSE. The goal of the summit is to help entrepreneurs in Haiti build businesses in their communities to support the development of a sustainable economy for their country. For the purpose of this discussion, I have learned to adopt “ecosystem” as the language for the business development environment. (more…)