New Touraine of Hope for Haiti (NTH) is an organization based in Haiti, aiming to initiate changes in poor communities through education and action for a better life.
NTH started working in Sonis with our EACTION (Education and Action) program which includes our health program (Health is wealth), Mountain road fixing (goat trail rehabilitation), Children’s Education (hope for tomorrow), clean water (a clean drop of water), and agricultural improvements (the Mountain behind Mountain project). We want to support and help people to build a better community and infrastructure using what they have as resources.
New Touraine of Hope is led by a temporary committee under the direction of Rosias Louis Exil, the director and founder of NTH. We believe that God is our Father and source, and that He has created us for a purpose. One of those purposes is to initiate changes and help improve the lives of others, for the reflection of His kingdom on earth. Working to help others for the kingdom is our duty as a Christian. May the Lord be praised in all that we hope to accomplish with His help.
Statement of Faith
- We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament as verbally inspired by God, and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
- We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, and is true God and true man.
- We believe that man was created in the image of God; that he sinned, and thereby incurred, not only physical death, but also that spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature.
- We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice; and all that truly repent of their sins and believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
- We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a Godly life.
- We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, and His ascension into heaven and in His present life there for us, as High Priest and Advocate.
- We believe in that blessed hope, the personal, bodily return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Officially Recognized Status
NTH has also been formally recognized as a development Charity organization by the minister of social affairs from the city hall of Kenscoff in 2020.
Committee Leadership
Rosias Louis Exil: Was born in 1994 in Nouvelle Touraine a locality of Kenscoff Port au Prince Haiti. There are five people in his biological family. His father was pastor of a church and also the owner of a primary school in the locality and his mother was a farmer.
Two years after the death of Rosias’ father in the year of 2000,his mother was obliged to send him to live as a restavec with an unknown person in a different area of Port au Prince. Unlike most of the restavek around the country at that time, Rosias had the chance to go to school and start a new journey in his life. His mother died in the year of 2005 with no chance of seeing or saying a last word. As an orphan with no appreciation and support from biological family, Rosias was still growing well following Christian faith and guidance from the lady he lived with as a restavec. During the twelve years living as a restavec, Rosias was growing with skills, intelligence and developing as a servant leader around other Christian leaders and mentors who became his new family. While in high school Rosias became a certified medical and bible translator and a positive change agent. His experience and benefits around missionaries and other leaders have developed his heart for going back to his birthplace to help his community. In the end of 2014 he finally was able to go back to his natal community, a decision that was prohibited by his aunt. This decision helped clear his life vision on what he was to do in positively helping his community. In 2015 a group of medical workers with a different organization arrived in the village for the first time to help the community. And since then different activities take place and give birth to a new source of hope for the community and the country.
Other committee members
Caze Marthe Dala Abraham
Myrtil St. Pierre Pierre
Sasha Robine Abraham
Yves Paul