7. Our Objective Is To Increase Academic Achievement And
Increase Graduation Rates In Primary Education. We Provide
Our Programs To Tuition Free Community Schools In Haiti.
9. We Believe Illiteracy It Is Not An Option. We Believe The
Effects Of Poverty Should Not Waste Powerful Brains.
10. We Believe Education Is The Front Line Against Poverty.
We Believe Education Nourishes Democratic Values. We
Believe Children Of Poverty In Haiti Are Eager To Learn.
11. When We Started In 2010, The School Book Bank Had
70 Textbooks And Most Of The Administration Was
Manual. We Never Had A Budget For Technology.
12. We Cataloged The Textbooks By Writing Codes On The
Front And Last Page Of The Textbooks.
13. We Used A Form Listing The Basic Student Information
And The Textbooks Borrowed
14. As The Program Grew, Keeping Track Of The Data Would
Have Been Impossible Without The Salesforce
Foundation Grant.
15. The Opportunity To Use Salesforce Has Skyrocketed
The Amount Of Data We Can Collect And Manage.
16. We Have Detailed Personal, Socioeconomic And
Academic Information Of The Students. Salesforce
Capabilities Enable Us To Develop Better
Understandings Of Our Recipients And What
Strategies To Deploy To Reach Them According To
Their Specific Situations.
According to
last year's 3rd
grade
demographics
, 60% are
female, 91%
are over the
age of 8, 53%
are over the
age of 12 and
50% are
restavek.
17. With Salesforce We Have Been Able To Expedite The
Process Of Cataloging, Distributing And Retrieving
Textbooks
18. We Would Be Unable To Manage The Growth Of Our
Programs Without Salesforce.
19. When We Asked Help Trough Appexchange We Received
Assistance By Joey Chan, A Certified Salesforce Geek That
Customized The Platform To Enable Us To Generate, Print
And Scan The Codes We Used To Handwrite.
20. We Are Exploring The Opportunity To Use Mobiles To Scan
And Maintain Records On The Spot In Rural Haiti Where The
Internet Coverage Is Limited.