Rezo Lekòl Kreyòl began after the January 2010 earthquake. Daniel Laurent, Joanes Gaston, and Jean Robert Louis went to Haiti with a relief delegation from Boston, then turned to longer work: educating the young people who will rebuild a better Haiti. After seven months of training a group of young teachers, they opened a lab school in October 2010. Lekòl Antoine Thurel is tuition free and teaches in Kreyòl.

In 2010, most schools in Haiti followed the French model, and Kreyòl, the mother tongue, was discouraged. Yet every Haitian speaks Kreyòl. So the school was built around its students, starting with the language they already think, question, and dream in.

Teachers work as expert guides in a student centered model. Science, mathematics, social studies, Kreyòl, and art are taught as connected systems, the way the parts of a body work together, with the goal of critical understanding through projects and experiments. Students discuss, connect, test, and understand.

Fifteen years on, 562 students are registered for the 2026 to 2027 school year. The vision has not changed: free, quality education from first to twelfth grade for underserved youth in Haiti.

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