Policy Plan 2021

Policy Plan 2021
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 in 2015	98
Qualified in group A	20
Group A (adjusted¹) by 2020	18
Admitted  2015/2016	6
Admitted 2016/2017	3
Admitted 2017/2018	4
Admitted 2018/2019	3
Admitted 2019/2020	2
Total admitted by December 2020	18
Still awaiting admittance group A	0
Graduates 2016	3
Graduates 2017	4
Graduates 2018	3
Graduated 2019	3
Graduated 2020	1
De facto graduated by end 2020	14
Expected graduates 2021	2 or 3
Total graduates by 2021	16/7
Expected graduate by 2022	1 or 2
Total to be graduated by 2022	18
Group B 2015 (not all qualified)	44
Group B adjusted by final 2018	29¹

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Who, what, where, how?

• A.      Our goal is to fund as of 2015 during 5 years, the vocational schooling of maximum 10 students per year. We decided to keep up our program for the academic year 2020/21 for those students that are already in. This concerned – due to delays because of the pandemic and the riots – altogether 5 students. By the end of 2021 3 or 4 of them will be graduated (of which 2 already got their diploma’s in December 2020 and January 2021) 1 Or 2 will graduate in 2022.
• B.      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.
• C.      A second mission, that is directly connected to the first one, will get more attention in the years to come. We want to help our graduates to become self employed, which we consider with our actual knowledge of Haitian society the only way for them to create a perspective on a more or less regular income and independency. The initiative of a general business plan has to come from themselves on our invitation. 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
• 1.      realistic (taking into account Haitian possibilities and limitations),
• 2.      it should be based on some kind of a marketing research to convince sponsors of its future creditworthiness,
• 3.      it should preferably use skills they acquired during their training and
• 4.      it should lead to some sort of regular income.                                                                                                                                 We will advise and train them in the development process and try to find sponsors and/or (micro-) credits. The first startup took off in 2020 and functions 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.
• D.    In order to make this aforementioned transition in the coming year we must adjust the goals of our foundation. The intention was to realize that in 2020, but as all our activities have been delayed,  this one has suffered the same fate. We will work on it again in 2021. The change will include a formulation like: “The Foundation not only aims to offer young people from Ile a Vache vocational training,  but also to do everything (in the material sense and immaterially) that will be helpful to make them establish their own small business to enable them to earn a reasonable income with their acquired skills and become independent in due time.” The intention is to make this transition again work during 5 years.
• E.      A setback in finalizing our vocational training branch and in the development of the startups, is the fact that our local collaborator, Edisson, will migrate this year to Canada. With him we had a very tight cooperation (also while he himself is a partner in the cybercafé). He will transfer his responsibilities for our project to his younger brother Bithovens. But, although we have enough confidence in him, this brother has not the experience with the setup of a small business as Edisson has. This means that we have to build up this part of the project once more. We have to explore if this will be possible. For that reason we have to take extra time for the preparations of the now startups.

Objectives 2021

• Objective in 2021 is to continue with the 4 remaining students from Kay-Kok, Ile a Vache to their vocational training courses in the city of Les Cayes. By the autumn of 2021 2 or 3 of them will be graduated. We will continue with the last 1 or 2 students for another academic year to finish their studies in 2021/2. Since we have some bigger sponsors that already committed themselves for a few more years, we are confident we will be able to accomplish that part of our mission.
• This means that we will not start up a new group of students in order to close our educational program by 2022. Though in our original tests we had more groups formed, we believe that the achievement to help all qualified people from the best tested group A, is the right moment to end the educational branch of our project.
• Since helping young people of Ile a Vache to establish a basis of regular income has been the underlying intention from the start of our program, we think, that instead of financing more young people to get a diploma with no perspective on work, we better start now to help the ones we invested already in to become independent.
• As to the housing: we stop the rent of the house by April 2021, since by then 2 of the 3 students living there, will be graduated. We encourage and help the remaining student to find his own place to stay. For those finding a place themselves we cover a fixed amount of expenses.
• From the inventory of our (14) graduates in 2020 it appeared that the majority has not found a fixed income. Some have migrated to Chili and the Dominican Republic, but that has not basically made a difference in their economical situation. 6 Of these students have  informed us they are interested to set up a small enterprise of their own.  
• To prepare for the set up of more startups and to adjust the official goal of our Foundation in this direction.
• To explore the possibilities to set up our own small micro credit facility for our ex-students in order to enable them to start their own small businesses.
• To explore the possibilities to transfer the small micro credit affair to become part of our first startup (the cybercafé/service centre) in the end; with which we hope the cybercafé to become in due time a kind of community service point (as already foreseen in the original business plan). 
• Work out a new way of cooperation with our new local collaborator, Bithovens St Firmin.

Finance

For the academic year 2020/21, we had available + € 9700,-- from donations, of which by December 2020 we spent around € 4300,--. Based on our experiences so far the cost per person per year should be set on € 1600,-- (+ $ 1700, --), which leaves € 5400,-- for the second half of the academic year of which about 50% has already been paid for. The expenditures for the academic year 2020/2021 (partly the extended year 2019/2020) are thus covered.

We want to collect an amount of € 4.000,-- through the focused approach of individual supporters/sponsors (small businesses, Dutch schools and individuals) for the year 2022. This amount should be sufficient to cover the tuition, living, housing, graduation etcetera for the 1 or partly 2 remaining students ( € 1600-2400,--) in the academic year 2021/2022, to setup 1 startup and to keep a reasonable buffer (together 2.400 -1600,--).

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 his work nor a reward or compensation of the Foundation (see also under "our local collaborator” in the Annual Report). He only gets $ 15,-- per month to cover the costs of data credit in order to keep up our regular and intensive communication.