Imagine if you were a child on the street begging for food and had no place to call home. Imagine finally finding a place to call home. Someone was finally treating you like they care and helping you to achieve a better life. You are now getting an education, you have clothes, food and medical attention. Statistically you should be dead or in slave labor but you are now working for a brighter future. At 18 years of age you are still in school from getting such a late start, but your government says you can no longer stay under the protection of your current home and must provide for yourself without finishing school or learning a skill/trade. You are scared. Will you survive? Can you find a place to live? Can you finish school and be more productive? Will you have to go back to the streets? This is the reality many teenagers are facing in Haiti. At the age of 18 the Haitian law does not allow children to stay in orphanages even if they are still in school. Unlike, American children, Haitians at age 18 have not reached the same mental maturity and without support are fragile on their own.

The Transition Program is being established to help the children transitioning out of the orphanage while still attending school or learning a skill/trade.  They are paying rent, buying food, clothes, and school supplies all on their own.  It seems so easy for them to give up on school or learning a trade and go back to the streets. God has a purpose for their lives and they are trying to stand on His promises and secure a brighter future for themselves.