Registered Nonprofit · Georgia, USA

Every farmer deserves
the dignity of the right tools.

Hies equips smallholder farmers in Haiti and worldwide with irrigation, tools, and polytechnic education — while helping the diaspora return, invest, and rebuild. Hope in every seed.

500M+
smallholder farmers worldwide we stand with
18
chapters in our founding vision document
3
pillars: tools, education, diaspora return
HOPE IN EVERY SEED· HAITI· DIASPORA· WORLD· HOPE IN EVERY SEED· HAITI· DIASPORA· WORLD·
Our Model

From seed to self-sufficiency, in five stages.

Hies is built on a simple belief: a farmer with the right tools, water, and education doesn't need charity — they need a fair start. This is the arc every dollar and every hour follows.

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Seed

Access to quality seeds and starter kits for smallholder plots.

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Water & Tools

Irrigation kits, plowing-as-a-service, and the Dignity Kit of hand tools.

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Education

Polytechnic curriculum from primary school through leadership-level training.

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Harvest

Higher yields, less post-harvest loss, and real income from the land.

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Return

Pathways for diaspora families to resettle, invest, and rebuild at home.

What We Do

Four programs. One mission.

Every initiative Hies runs ladders up to the same goal: farmers with real tools, students with real skills, families with real health, and a diaspora with a real path home.

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Agricultural Empowerment

Irrigation kits, plowing-as-a-service cooperatives, and the Dignity Kit — quality hand tools, hermetic storage bags, and soil health supplies delivered at cost, not charity.

Tools & Irrigation
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Polytechnic Education

Anchored by HIES Technical College in the Central Plateau — a hands-on curriculum spanning machinery, soil science, crop health, and four-language fluency, taught on a working teaching farm.

Schools & Curriculum See the full plan →
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Rural Dental & Heart Health

Mobile dental clinics and school screenings for farming communities, where untreated tooth and gum disease is closely linked to heart disease — in both adults and children.

Dental & Cardiovascular Care
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Diaspora & Resettlement

Practical guidance and connections for diaspora families considering a return to Haiti — housing, land, business setup, and community integration support.

Resettlement Support
MOUTH & HEART, ONE SYSTEM
A Health Gap We Can't Ignore

In rural Haiti, a bad tooth can become a bad heart.

Dental care is one of the most overlooked health needs in rural farming communities — and one of the most consequential. Untreated gum disease and tooth decay allow bacteria to enter the bloodstream, driving the same inflammation linked to heart attacks, stroke, and infections of the heart lining. Research shows adults with gum disease face a meaningfully higher risk of heart attack, and childhood tooth decay is tied to hardened arteries later in life. Farmers already carry a heavy cardiovascular burden — poor oral health quietly makes it worse, for parents and children alike.

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    Mobile Dental ClinicsBringing basic screening, cleanings, and extractions directly to farming villages with no local dentist.
  • 02
    School Screening DaysCatching decay and gum disease early in children, before it becomes a lifelong health burden.
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    Heart-Health Referral NetworkConnecting patients with cardiovascular risk factors to follow-up care beyond the dental chair.
Help Fund a Dental Mission
Why It Matters

The gap we're closing.

66%
of Haiti's population lives rurally, dependent on farming
<30%
of Haiti's cultivable land has any irrigation
30%
of harvested grain lost yearly to poor storage alone
28%
higher heart attack risk linked to untreated gum disease

Sources: World Bank, FAO, UNICEF Haiti, GAFSP, CareQuest Institute, peer-reviewed cardiovascular research — cited in full in our founding vision document.

Coming Home

The diaspora isn't just a source of remittances.
It's a source of return.

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    Resettlement GuidancePractical, honest advice on land, housing, and paperwork for families planning a return.
  • 02
    Investment PathwaysConnecting diaspora capital directly to cooperative tool funds and irrigation projects.
  • 03
    Community NetworkLinking returning families with local cooperatives, schools, and neighbors already on the ground.
The land is good. It was never the land that abandoned us. It's everything around it.
— A farmer's reflection, Bombardopolis, Haiti · from our founding vision document
Apostolic Diplomacy

Le diplomate est un être demandeur.

The diplomat is one who asks. Not one who waits at a distance, and not one who simply gives from afar — but one who petitions, who shows up, who makes the specific request that turns goodwill into action. HIES calls this posture apostolic in the oldest sense of the word: one who is sent, carrying a message that is not their own, and standing in the gap between the one who speaks and the one who must understand. This is the posture HIES brings to every table, from a government ministry in Port-au-Prince to a conference hall in the diaspora.

A Platform, A Translation, A Bridge

Years before HIES existed on paper, this posture was already at work. At a major conference at Church on the Rock in Haiti, Louinel Jean brought in Dr. Peter Morgan as guest speaker — and stood beside him on the platform as his translator, carrying his message from English into Haitian Creole in real time, sentence by sentence, for the congregation gathered to hear it.

That moment captures something HIES still holds at its center: language is not a soft skill added onto ministry, diplomacy, or development — it is the infrastructure that lets one carry over to another. A guest speaker's message means nothing to a congregation that cannot understand it. A government's reform means little to a region that was never consulted in its own tongue. HIES's four-language curriculum, and its approach to diaspora engagement, both trace back to this same conviction: a bridge is only as strong as the translator standing on it.

Translating at a conference in Haiti
Church on the Rock, Haiti — translating for guest speaker Dr. Peter Morgan
LJ 20 YEARS · 4 COUNTRIES 3 CERTIFIED LANGUAGES Haiti · Jamaica · France · USA CARIBBEAN CONSTRUCTIVIST
Our Story

Twenty years across four countries, converging into one mission.

Louinel Jean, MEd — Caribbean Constructivist, Minister/Diplomat, and founder of HIES — has spent more than two decades working at the intersection of language, education, and humanitarian development — across Haiti, Jamaica, France, and the United States. His path began in practical theology and global missions, the root beneath every classroom, every translation, and every community he has served since.

He has served as Vice President of the Norigene Foundation and Regional Director of Rain Catchers Global, leading post-earthquake recovery programs across solar energy, agriculture, and water filtration in underserved Haitian communities. He has taught at the Jamaican Ministry of Education, the HEART/NSTA Trust Community College, and the Alliance Française under the French Embassy in Kingston — and he is a contract linguist and Haitian Creole standard setter for the U.S. Department of Defense, a rare credential held by a small number of vetted professionals.

Across every role, Louinel is a constructivist — and a certified educator in three nations: Haiti, Jamaica, and the United States.

Knowledge is not poured into a person — it is constructed at the intersection of the classroom, the church, and the community.

HIES is that conviction, built into an institution. If your own path has carried you through a classroom, a congregation, a clinic, or a workshop — there is very likely a place for you in this work.

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Whether you give, volunteer, or simply spread the word — every seed planted here grows because someone chose to plant it.

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