Quality resources
Carefully selected books and tools in every format, digital included where wi-fi allows.
Libraries for children
A culture of children's libraries, built village by village.
We strengthen rural libraries until they stand on their own. Here is the standard we mentor toward, and the five libraries living it.
What a PILH library strives to be
Trained library workers
Serving children from birth through eight, and always learning from library experts.
Information skills
Guidance for seven and eight year olds in finding and using different kinds of information.
A safe, lit evening room
A welcoming place where older girls and boys do schoolwork after dark.
Kreyòl first programs
Activities that include siblings, parents and grandparents, and spark children's own creativity.
A connected community
Teachers empowered, leaders engaged, schools in partnership, NGOs working together.
The five libraries
All servicesPartial services
All servicesDuplan Methodist Community LibraryOuest · Partner since 2022Learn more 
All servicesCange Community LibraryCentre · Partner since 2011
Partial servicesLa Chapelle Community LibraryArtibonite · Partner since 2016
Partial servicesRavine Sèche Library CenterArtibonite · Partner since 2020
Partial servicesSummits Education Library SystemCentre · Partner since 201812
Twelve libraries, one network
The Haiti Libraries Alliance connects library workers across Haiti on Zoom, from cataloguing to children's programming. Membership is free.
Visit the AllianceOur partners in training
When conditions keep PILH personnel from traveling, trained Haitian library workers carry the training forward.
- Besly Belizaire, Deschapelles LibraryHead library worker, trained by Terry Peterson MLIS, Sister Cities Essex
- Fernand Constant, La ChapelleTrained by Janet Deavor MLIS, an HEPI volunteer
- Cange Library teamTrained by Dr. Sara Mansbach, PILH reading specialist
- La Chapelle teacher trainingJanet Deavor, Pastor Carlo Belon, Dr. Peter Manuel, Dr. Sara Mansbach
- Mortenson Center, University of IllinoisNetworking presentations led by its director, Dr. Clara M. Chu