Together, we have done so much!
In 2007, Kay Roseen traveled to Trois Mares, Haiti with a local mission group. When she visited again in 2008, a Haitian father asked her to take his son back to the US and raise him as her own. Tearfully, she had to decline but was so moved by the parent’s desperate request that she decided to channel her energy to// uplift the Haitian children and their families for years to come.//make Trois Mares a better place to raise children. Upon her return to home to Teaneck, NJ, Grace Lutheran Church and the village of Trois Mares agreed to work together.
Soon thereafter, in 2009, Dr. Joyce Baynes spearheaded the efforts of Christ Episcopal Church in Teaneck to partner with the Haitian village of Chapottin.
Together, Dr. Baynes and Kay Roseen founded Future Forward for Haiti as a 501c(3) public charity in 2015.
In 2018 Future Forward for Haiti developed a third partnership, this time between Christ Church of Hamilton and Wenham on the North Shore of Massachusetts and St. Louis d’Ayiti.
Most recently, since 2021, residents of the Gallatin Valley in Montana have been packing lunches for school children in of Bois Negresse, Haiti.
Future Forward for Haiti works to improve the education and well-being of children and their families in rural Haiti, even during these days of urban violence.
in 2008, we Began by partnership With Trois Mares, Haiti and teaneck New Jersey
![2008 From humble beginnings in Trois Mares...](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588267547948-72T80WUQ1GLDRJRXH1P9/9D32F20D-8716-4F68-8700-FA43AE863148_1_105_c.jpeg)
![2010 New Light & Peace Church/School](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588268402626-7RF2KK3YIZSD74OZHJOC/4B0CF987-058E-4443-AFCE-07271F59C8C0_1_105_c.jpg)
![2011 Community Cistern for clean water](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588267587297-Q3QGKOA3HUTAFOV563OH/DFFB8550-FE89-454F-B516-7C7512B03BCB_1_105_c.jpeg)
![2011 Parsonage/Welcome Center](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588269068956-482OK2G9WNN6L0Z8TK39/D17BAFF9-2B6E-4FFD-8F3D-F5EB0F9EA55B_1_105_c.jpg)
![2013 First Packathon sends school lunches](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588267600112-M730FLNGAFX0HZG33OCR/418BCDB7-3429-44DE-9659-49773D0BCE3F_1_105_c.jpeg)
![2016 First Ever Graduation!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588267685390-PSNVC7MH3LNGHMPM2O3G/E5606D6F-D740-43D2-9A63-F3B97966520F_1_105_c.jpeg)
![2016 First Alphas receive Certificates for Literacy](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588267693355-QERQSIRDLW3YVA1SX6NJ/C915E062-B907-4B45-AD7A-06168B24EBEB_1_105_c.jpeg)
![2017 Microloans help borrowers start businesses](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588267670711-YQZ3PGEV75E7WAQTCWMB/6DDABB5A-165B-452E-9A85-EC2F2C6C585F_1_105_c.jpeg)
![2018 School for Grades 1-4](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588267789729-R5RPKCDG63HOCA2XEZ8P/B2F23C7C-F820-4043-A2ED-A177BEE070B5_1_105_c.jpeg)
![Grade 2 in their own classroom](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588267754979-HN4EFDZ21M899XF5B1V1/1F7E9963-F82C-43DA-BBF9-CFA18C6FC373_1_105_c.jpeg)
![2019 Nancy Hulbrock Building completes school](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588267408436-0PQ7JWVH75NY4SSATR6Y/A726676A-42DD-46AA-A011-F36209CB72B7_1_105_c.jpg)
in 2009, Chapottin school and community became our second partnership.
![Finished 2019!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588005687504-OZ9RE9IUMCHUTO4VIHD4/1CBEF280-8B9C-45E9-A920-C07651489AE8_1_105_c.jpeg)
![Chapottin needed to use their old church building](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1713907556514-12MI3EC6QNJ899QYPA0D/FBEC2812-E5CC-4F0E-9414-A2ECCB780475_1_105_c.jpg)
![Since 2013, Chapottin's students](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588284828149-2NZJ8QK0P51IX4B17T55/B7939FB5-34A4-455D-89A6-3E3A7A841F56_1_105_c.jpeg)
![Chapottin School opened 2014](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588270655654-6S2G5VE4NN8V1HJH5W4B/14F8B24E-9364-4A7B-8328-4008C5EE77A1_1_105_c.jpeg)
![2016 Community Cistern](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588616829720-HN70CU67SE0KMW4JYO7D/IMG_0628.jpeg)
![Benches with desks](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588270665570-3DTMJWZOUMN4GPJSUJH6/94D533C8-A87E-4113-B99F-0914B33DD8EA_1_105_c.jpeg)
![Girls rooms and Boys rooms](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588285591491-C5WLIZAXEH81A1UM4YLZ/B40B6544-5184-4E69-A3E3-886B0A358D55_1_105_c.jpeg)
![Seed potatos](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588286230640-XSZETELAF8PD9W2OCTVJ/153A6668-EEEF-4C2B-9945-A1A969EA4BB2_1_105_c.jpeg)
Our third partnership is between St. Louis d’Ayiti and Massachusetts
![First floor of new school completed in 2023.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1724867684649-DFX2BQKKWGOUJH35N7CD/3645B12B-6D14-4AA3-B139-473157D5E093.jpg)
![2013 Pr. Aleus (center) began asking for a school](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588612918427-UIQIBQ6LCWLFQGQKATIC/CE0E331C-885C-42A4-B738-4C35C75BA54F_1_105_c.jpg)
![2018 This "tour guide" showed us her village](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588006335650-29R97IP6Q2TL6QT4XS56/ED92B88C-B546-4C73-BFD1-02753D13D970_1_105_c.jpeg)
![Our travel team first visited SLA in 2018](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588613837907-RG3LMVN5NAWEZ0JQMPH8/E099D98D-5431-45FC-A57B-F75E22C5EF4D_1_105_c.jpg)
![2019 Partnership begins](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588006239024-T74X1SUJYDXLY4VXYXNA/3D2D1C22-BB97-4F37-B2BF-6432035AD9DB_1_105_c.jpeg)
![Travel team builds desks with local carpenter](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588006183463-Y7QMO8PZ6VYVZSAZGP6Q/A03F88D9-D445-46CF-A058-4644D966BA48_1_105_c.jpeg)
![First North Shore Packathon for Haiti](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588285472152-X0390CZNIIR7NBDTXYJS/7D72159D-F26C-423D-B91A-E7C1A790F283_1_105_c.jpeg)
![Students now enjoy school lunches](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1724794736113-FRMW61VMBOVCF5E5LYMI/7520F349-EC8A-479F-B328-B75FCA716F0E_1_105_c.jpg)
![Land was bought for a school 2019](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1588612717396-F9GO0AISZQZ86SH0B368/AA1AC278-201F-4A69-84A2-ADB59AF48411_1_105_c.jpg)
![Classes occupied before windows and doors were added.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ac2124e4b025ee91b76268/1724794297321-O4G1VDLVGDRN036A4HGM/1C5B61F7-A230-41B1-B1B1-3B778D14875D.jpeg)