Tek4Kids

Category: Our Projects

  • Clean Water Is Available at St. Therese Montessori School

    Clean Water Is Available at St. Therese Montessori School

    St. Therese Montessori School was the first school Tek4Kids partnered with to provide clean water in 2011. The purified water serves more than 345 students from preschool through fifth grade. Tek4Kids has provided two treatment tanks and two distribution tanks for the school, as well as providing access to clean water in the kitchen and bathrooms of the school. Each week nearly 1500 gallons of water are pumped through the water system and currently twelve 12-volt batteries are used to power the chlorine filtration system.

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  • Technology Is Making Way for the Future at St. Therese Montessori School

    Technology Is Making Way for the Future at St. Therese Montessori School

    By providing young students at St. Therese Montessori School with the latest technology, it helps them to become familiar with software, typing, and English much sooner, giving them a clear path in education as they grow. These students will become familiar with modern computer software before reaching high school, giving them a head start.

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  • Technical School Set to Begin in Fall, 2015!

    Technical School Set to Begin in Fall, 2015!

    This September, Tek4Kids will continue its efforts to provide a brighter future to students in Haiti by beginning its college-level program. Building on our experience and knowledge gained over the past several years, we will provide scholarships to students who exhibit strong motivation and academic achievement to enter the technical school. We plan to train these young adults in Information Technology fields such as computer programming and website design.

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  • Water Jugs Ready to Bring Safe Drinking Water Home to the Students’ Families

    Water Jugs Ready to Bring Safe Drinking Water Home to the Students’ Families

    During our last trip in October, we met with Fr. Tony and Madame Clovita, the principal of St. Therese Montessori School. They expressed their thankfulness to Tek4Kids, and we want to pass this on to you, our volunteers and donors!

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  • Big Steps Made on the Last Trip to St. Louis High School

    Big Steps Made on the Last Trip to St. Louis High School

    Tek4Kids recently sent a team to Haiti for fifteen days to work on our latest projects at St. Louis High School in Jeremie. In addition to the computer education program that we are offering at St. Louis High School, we also wanted to help the school and its students by providing electric power and clean water.

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  • Computer Classes at St. Louis High School

    Computer Classes at St. Louis High School

    During our trips in October and November 2012, we arrived one step closer to our dream of helping the youth in Jeremie to have a better future. Two computer classrooms with more than 50 laptops are now operational at St. Louis High School! All 400+ students are learning to type with our three teachers: Nancy, John Wally and Josselin. Most are excited about classes, so much that the teachers sometimes have to chase them out of the classroom so they can get to their next class on time. Students with computers in their homes are progressing the fastest, of course, but the others aren’t far behind. Hard to believe, but next week, the students will be taking 1st quarter exams.

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  • Construction at Brother Paulin School

    Construction at Brother Paulin School

    Tek4Kids started building the pump house and the cistern for the water purification system in November of 2011. We employed the same design as the water purification system installed at St. Therese Montessori School by means of a chlorine generator that uses ordinary salt and electrolysis powered by a 12 volt battery. We also installed two 500 gallon water tanks on the roof of the school into which the purified water is pumped. These water tanks hold the purified water where they can provide constant water distribution for the school.

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  • The Water Purification System at St. Therese Montessori

    The Water Purification System at St. Therese Montessori

    Tek4Kids began building the pump house and the roof to the existing cistern with the help of our local construction crew in 2010. Piping was routed from the cistern into the pump house and through the water purification system. This system filters and chlorinates the impure water by means of a chlorine generator using ordinary salt and electrolysis powered by a 12 volt battery. The system has been purifying water for 1 1/2 years and it provides between 500 and 1000 gallons of water for the school every day. The school children are also able to bring jugs of clean drinking water home to their families. Since schools are often the heart of communities, this is an enormous help to a huge number of people. For the families of St. Therese Montessori School, this is often the only affordable possibility to obtain safe drinking water. Because of the existing water purification systems a German non-profit has installed a bathroom facility and Tek4Kids is currently providing water for this system.

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  • Upcoming Projects at Brother Paulin School

    Upcoming Projects at Brother Paulin School

    Tek4Kids has many projects in the pipeline to help improve the situation of Brother Paulin School. Our future projects are based on getting volunteers and donations to help the school. That includes a kitchen and a cafeteria, where the women currently cook with firewood. The smoke created by burning these chunks of wood endangers the health of the cooks as well as the children, not to mention the sanitary standards of the kitchen. We also want to improve the school yard, renovate the old building and add electricity and computers to a classroom.

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  • The Opening Ceremony at St. Therese Montessori

    The Opening Ceremony at St. Therese Montessori

    On February 22, 2011, the water purification system at St. Therese Montessori School was officially inaugurated. Many people from the community of Jeremie, including students and teachers were in attendance for the opening ceremony, along with team members from Tek4Kids and the Cathedral of the Assumption, members of our Haitian construction crew, and our translator, Baba Langder.

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