Timoun Tèt Ansanm was created by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in collaboration with a small group of local Haitians in 2001. It offers creative educational programs for 325 children ages 7-12 as well as for the 60 teenagers and young adults who work with them. The participants come from the town of Verrettes, in the Artibonite region, and from several towns in the surrounding mountains. The name “Timoun Tèt Ansanm” means "children putting their heads together".

Program objectives:

• Develop self esteem.
• Improve one’s relationship with God and with one another.
• Increase one’s sense of personal responsibility.
• Develop tolerance and respect for differences.
• Learn to collaborate and work as a team.
• Learn to exercise “positive leadership”.
• Develop the ability to analyze social, political and economic realities in the light of the Gospel.
• Develop a commitment to working toward social change.
• Learn skills and attitudes that will foster success later in life.
• Learn through first hand experience that it is possible to maintain control without using violence.
• Form young adult monitors who are capable of helping us realize these objectives.

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