The Haiti School Project

The Haiti School Project is now online. Here's the backstory.

Last year, we did a story about l'Artibonite, a town in Haiti where students go to school in a small, one-room church.

After our story aired, listeners donated $3,000 to the school — about 10 years of wages for the average Haitian.

The school's principal thought that would be enough to build a schoolhouse. But by the time he'd spent all the money, all he had to show for it was a foundation and some concrete blocks.


Then Tim Myers, a Planet Money listener who works in the construction business, visited l'Artibonite and decided to take on the project himself. In a podcast this spring, Myers told us it he wanted to build the school, and it would cost about $80,000.

The Haiti School Project is a Web site devoted to the project.