Policy Plan 2019

Policy Plan 2019
Stichting Studiehulp Kay-Kok

Board: Mw. J. du Bois-Minholts, president

Mw. L.M. Kuijer, secretary

Mw. R. van der Kroef, treasurer

Website: http://ileavache.blogspot.com/

Email address: reinhildevdk@gmail.com

Bank : NL06TRIO 0391025457

Address: Jensemaheerd 147, 9736CK Groningen, The Netherlands

Postal address : Postbus 1485, 9701 BL Groningen, The Netherlands

Telephone: + 31 654786602

RSIN: 8555.41.143

The project in numbers

Tested 2015	98
Qualified in group A	20
Group A (adjusted) by 2018	18¹
Admitted  2015/2016	6
Admitted 2016/2017	3
Admitted 2017/2018	4
Admitted 2018/2019	3
Total admitted by December 2018	16
Still awaiting admittance group A	2
Graduates 2016	3
Graduates 2017	4
Graduates 2018	3
Total graduated by July 2018	10
Expected graduates 2019	3
Expected graduates 2020	3
Total graduates by 2020	16
2019 last 2 of group A to be admitted	2
Total to be graduated by 2021	18
Group B 2015 (not all qualified)	44
Group B adjusted by final 2018	29¹

¹ Due to migration, death, illness, not yet finished secondary school, study does not fit in our goals

Who, what, where, how?

1. Our goal is to fund as of 2015 during 5 years, the vocational schooling of maximum 10 students per year. We decided to open up our program for the academic year 2019/20 again for studies that take maximum 2 years. For this reason we will use the academic year 2020/21 to enable the last students to graduate in our program. Funding is mainly found in our personal social network. Though we would be grateful to find also institutionalized sponsors (like schools and enterprises) that are willing to financially adopt one or more students, it appears that this is very difficult. We tried this several times, but failed so far. Of course we will grab any opportunity to broaden our financial basis, and we will keep on looking for this kind of sponsors, but on the other hand we have to be realistic about on what we spend our limited time and energy. So in the first place we focus on keeping those sponsors we have.
2. A second mission, that is directly connected to the first will get more attention in the years to come. We want to help our graduates to become self employed, which we consider the only way for them to create a perspective on a more or less regular income. The initiative of a general plan has to come from themselves. We can help them subsequently to turn this into a real business plan, that will be used to find sponsors, loans and (micro-) credits for their project. The plan should be realistic (taking into account Haitian possibilities and limitations), it should be based on some kind of a marketing research to convince sponsors of its future creditworthiness, it should use the skills they acquired during their training and it should lead to some sort of regular income. We will advise them in the development process and try to find sponsors and/or micro credits. The first startup that is just to be launched in 2019 will function as our pilot in order to learn how to start a small business in Haiti. Some of our sponsors already committed themselves to this new branch of our project.  

Objectives 2019

• Objective in 2019 is to send once more 5 to 10 students from Kay-Kok, Ile a Vache to vocational training courses in the city of Les Cayes. At least we want to send the last 2 students from group A this year to school and to enable them to finish their (2 year-) studies in 2021. Since we have some bigger sponsors that already committed themselves for a few more years, we are confident we will be able to accomplish our mission.
• During our decision making process about admittance to our program we will take into account the perspectives for work of the studies chosen, as we will look to the distribution between the type of studies the students applied for as well.
• As to the housing: we try to encourage the female students again to find their own places to stay, while in the rented house they cannot stay mixed, and renting a second place is very expensive. For those finding a place themselves we cover a fixed amount of  expenses.
• We want to make an inventory of our (10) graduates about their actual employment situation.
• Set up the first startup of our graduates, to enable them to become self employed. To learn how to do this in Haiti, what challenges you meet as a small entrepreneur, and how to solve problems that come up. To encourage other former students to follow the example.   

Finance

For the academic year of 2018/19, we had (in January 2018) available + € 9500,- from donations, of which by December 2018 we spent nearly € 5500,-. Based on our experiences so far the cost per person per year should be set on € 1550,-  (=$ 1700,-). The expenditures for the academic year 2018/2019 are thus covered. Our target is to keep up with this budget.

Collect an amount of € 7.750,- through the focused approach of individual supporters/sponsors (small businesses, Dutch schools and individuals) for the academic year of 2019/2020. This amount should be sufficient to cover the tuition, living, housing etcetera for the 5 students in the school year 2019/2020 (3 for their second/third year and at least two new ones) and to keep a reasonable buffer. For every € 1550,- more, we can admit an extra student.

In the third place we have this year for the first time money available for a startup. This is € 2000,-. Another sponsor already promised to make some money available when we will be able to set up our own small micro credit agency. When our first startup is running, we will focus on the further development of this new branch of our project. In the mean time we try to provide the students as good as possible with tools and other equipment as demanded by their schools, which we hope will enable them as well to earn some money during their schooling and after graduation. 

Remuneration policy continued

The Board nor any other person in any way involved in the Stichting Studiehulp Kay-Kok receives remuneration or compensation for their work from the funds of the foundation. Our onsite collaborator or his representative receives for her work nor a reward or compensation of the Foundation (see also under "our local collaborator” in the Annual Report). She only gets $ 15,-- per month to cover the costs of data credit in order to keep up our regular and intensive communication.