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Art Creation Foundation For Children

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Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education, Children & Youth, International, Public & Societal Benefit, Youth Development Programs

Mission: Art Creation Foundation for Children (ACFFC) is a pacifist, non-religious, apolitical, NGO (Non-Governmental Organization). Our mission is simple: we serve over 60 children in Jacmel, Haiti. Art is the focus that provides them a future. Our children have been selected based on specific criteria. All of the children were between 6 and 11 when enrolled; they had never attended school nor did they eat on a regular basis. Many of our children are orphaned and were destined to a life on the streets. The children who are blessed with family are still living a life of severe poverty that should not exist in a world as advanced as ours. Knowing that these children now have an opportunity for a better life, arts education, schooling, consistent supply of food, medical care and support is an overwhelming relief to the children. We are a simple, grassroots, non- bureaucratic organization with no hidden agenda ... all we want is for our children to thrive and be children! MISSION Art Creation Foundation For Children is a non-profit arts organization created for education and personal growth of children in need in Jacmel, Haiti. VISION Children achieve self-sufficiency via the arts and education as well as internalize a sense of social responsibility, community and connectedness in partnership with ACFFC staff and supporters. ACFFC was founded in 2000 and has been granted 501(c)3 status. arts education - food - schooling - health care - love

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8 Stories from Volunteers, Donors & Supporters

dianesmook Donor

Rating: 5

10/10/2024

This is a wonderful group - they take good care of the educational and cultural needs of the member children under very difficult circumstances in Haiti. And every dollar you donate goes to the children.

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Volunteer

Rating: 5

10/26/2019

This is a wonderful group - every penny collected goes right into the program in Haiti. I volunteered to give photography workshops for the older kids for 2 years. One of the kids has now graduated from high school, passed his exams, and is earning money as a photographer. There is excellent follow-up with the children involved. Another girl who joined the foundation program years ago has passed her high school exams and is attending college, with the help of the foundation. You have no idea of how hard this is to achieve in Haiti for kids who have no regular homes or family. ACFFC is giving children control over their futures.

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Bari W. Professional with expertise in this field

Rating: 5

09/17/2021

Been following this since it’s inception. So exciting to see how the children have flourished!

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Donor

Rating: 5

10/20/2020

ACFFC is an amazing organization offering incredible opportunities for the children and families of Haiti. In addition to teaching children skills that will allow them to earn a living for themselves, they provide food, shelter, clothing, school supplies and more, allowing these children to grow and develop into compassionate young adults. I am honored and humbled to be associated with such a meaningful organization.

Amelia E. Donor

Rating: 5

10/03/2014

The ACFFC's cause is one that I greatly believe in and the children they help put out the most remarkable artwork. What they do in Haiti should not go unrecognized. I have several products from them on my mantle, and am in the process of saving to sponsor one of their children. The work that goes in to this group is remarkable, and their volunteers are among the best. Anything I have ever done with them, any question I have ever had I have always received swift service and answers.

Jane71 Donor

Rating: 5

08/08/2014

Haiti has monuments of aid which failed to aid, buildings without staff to help people(a uninversity, etc). ACFFC is the opposite, an organization that invest in Haiti's people, educating and encouraging it's children. I often doubt independent aid organizations, but a Haitian native I respect told me how much difference this organization makes, and how it keeps families together.

I visited Haiti twice. It's a great, cheap Caribbean vacation. But in it's markets I'd occasionally see a face which would haunt me, children and women who I just knew weren't eating regularly or were really struggling to survive. So I'm grateful to an organization which gives me hope for people who deserve it.
I've donated to a lot of causes, but i feel especially great about supporting ACFFC.

Pkinne12 Donor

Rating: 5

09/26/2012

This organization empowers children to take charge of their future. Not only does it feed them and send them to school, but they are also taught a skill, so they will be able to support themselves in the future.

gbonheur Donor

Rating: 5

01/05/2011

This is a wonderful organization that directly helps the ones who need it most in Haiti: the children. I have had very good experience with the director and know her to be an outstanding, caring, generous and sincere person, who gives her all to the cause.I highly recommend ACFFC to all my clients and any person who wants to give money to the tragedy that is Haiti.This is a country and a people who have incredible needs, and we will continue to try to help by being supportive of ACFFC.
Sincerely,
Laurie Ahner, Galerie Bonheur

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apanda Donor

Rating: 5

12/27/2008

What sets this organization apart, for me, is that every dollar I give goes directly to the children; there are no mailings or donor "gifts" diverting the money from those who need it most. The knowledge that I can directly help real people who are struggling in a very poor community is comforting in some way. Kudos to this team for providing that! And as an artist myself, I appreciate that one of life's greatest pleasures is made available to children who otherwise would have very bleak lives.

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will ray Donor

Rating: 5

12/27/2008

As a donor who works in the nonprofit sector, I have been so impressed by this organization's efficient, low-overhead, non-bureaucratic business practice that I have asked friends and professional associates to join me in supporting it. Success is measured in human-survival metrics: kids taught, meals eaten, art supplies contributed and distributed. Philanthrocapitalism on a very small, very manageable scale.

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