Policy Plan 2023

Policy Plan 2023
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 2021	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
Graduated 2021	2
Graduated 2022	1
Total graduates by 2022	17
Expected graduate by 2023	1
Total to be graduated by 2023	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?

•       Our general 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 in the year 2023 for the student that is still in. This concerns – due to delays because of the pandemic, riots and the earthquake – still 1 student. By the end of 2023 she is expected to be graduated as well.
•  Funding of our project 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 invest in certain small enterprises, it appears that this is very difficult. Of course, we will grab any opportunity to broaden our financial basis, 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.
• We discovered that in spite of the good diploma’s they acquired, our students do not find regular jobs, and for that reason we extended our goal in 2020 to help our graduates to a job/income, preferably by founding 1 or more (small) businesses in which they can become partners or workers.
• 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 to a more or less regular income and economic independency. We want to concentrate this in 1 or more (small) businesses, for which the initiative has to come from themselves with our support. We can help them 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.

In order to realize this, we collaborate closely with our ex-student and former trainee business administration. In due time we hope to be able to hand him over the business administration of the new startups under our guidance.

The first startup, a cybercafé, took off in 2020 and functions as our pilot in order to learn how to start a small business in Haiti. This startup functions under its own, separate responsibility.

•  In order to make this aforementioned transition we must adjust the goals of our foundation. The intention was to realize that in 2022, but as all our activities have been delayed, this one has suffered the same fate. We will work on it again in 2023. The change could include a formulation like: “The Foundation not only aims to offer young people from Ile à Vache vocational training, but also to do everything (in the material sense and immaterially) that will be helpful 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 maximum 5 years, starting from 2021.

Objectives 2023

•       Objective in 2023 is to continue with the remaining student from Kay-Kok, Ile à Vache to support her vocational training courses in the city of Les Cayes. We hope she will be able to graduate this year. Finances for this are available.
• By this the educational part of our program will come to an end in 2023.

Since helping young people of Ile à Vache to establish a basis of regular income has been the underlying intention from the start of our program, instead of financing more young people to get a diploma with no perspective on work, we start now to help set up a small business, that will enable (some of) them to earn an independent income in the future.

• As to the housing and food: we cover the expenses of our remaining student.
• From the inventory between our (16) graduates in 2021 it appeared that the majority has not found a regular/fixed income. Some have migrated to Chili and the Dominican Republic, but that has not basically made a difference in their economic situation. 6 Of these students have informed us they are interested to set up a small enterprise of their own. After more investigation into their plans, it turned out that these plans are not solid enough to bear enough fruit to provide them with a regular income.   
• To develop in close cooperation with our former trainee, Ubain Pierre, the business plan he has written already to set up and possibly maintain a plantain[1] plantation, that has got the potential to expand in due time and to offer work and income to several of our graduates. Ubain Pierre is supposed to become the business administrator of this business, to train the graduates and others that will become employees in the business and to become the local leader of this part of the project. As soon as possible he is supposed to earn his living from the enterprise. He is for these activities also being advised by our former student agronomics.
• Once the abovementioned startup is up and running, we (in close cooperation with Ubain Pierre) will explore the possibilities to set up another startup, or to diversify the plantation, preferably aimed to offer work to some of our young female graduates. The intention is, that these initiatives will be financed with the money generated by the plantation. The plantation in that sense has to become the engine that sets off more activities.    
• Work out a new way of cooperation with our local collaborator in the (closing) educational part, Bithovens St Firmin, who is also part of our first startup, the cybercafé. Since the educational branch of our project will stop as of 2023, his tasks in that activity will also come to an end. For the cybercafé we provided equipment and materials for at least 1 more year of working. By that time we aim that the cybercafé can keep up itself entirely and offer Bithovens St firmin and his family a more regular income.
• In the second place we have to establish a form of cooperation with our local business administrator Ubain Pierre, as our local collaborator in the plantain plantation.

Finance

For the year 2023, we have available + € 5000,-- from donations. The biggest part of this money has gone to the second startup. Since it is not entirely clear so far how much delay our student will still encounter this year, we cannot precisely foretell how many months she will need before graduation. The main costs will be her graduation (estimated to be $ 500), her housing and her monthly money for food and drinks ($75 per person). In total this will not exceed $ 1700, which money is available.

In 2022 we postponed our call for contributions, because we first wanted to be able to present more concrete plans to our sponsors. Nevertheless, we were glad that we already received several donations and we will continue in 2023 to contact our regular sponsors for their yearly contribution.  We aim to collect an amount of US$ 6000,-- all together, meaning that we have to find $ 1000,-- on top of our already available donations.

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 collaborators or representatives receive for their work nor a reward or compensation of the Foundation (see also under "our local collaborator” in the Annual Report). Our collaborator Bithovens St firmin gets $ 22,-- per month to cover the costs of data credit in order to keep up regular and intensive communication with the school, the student and us.

We have a private financial arrangement with our Bithovens. This is organised entirely outside of the budget of the Stichting Studiehulp Kay-Kok and is supposed to be replaced by the income he will get from the cybercafé.

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[1] ‘Bakbananen’