Our Mission
Our mission is continuously evolving and limitless. We are one organization with three projects, each one with a specific goal. Our goals are to continue caring for and providing schooling for the children at our orphanage, to teach them the importance of the environment, and to build a more sustainable future for Haiti
Our Team
Djemson Jeudy
Founder & Executive Director
Djemson founded PAH in 2010. His desire to help his community in Haiti promoted him to open his first orphanage, the Children’s home of Gonaives. He continued to educate himself on how to best help the people of his country working for organizations such as: EarthCorps, Rebuild Globally, and All Hands and Hearts.
Djemson received his education from Université d’État d’Haïti (UEH) in 2010 and studied Studied Economic Sciences and Accounting Sciences.
Jessie Dye
Jessie Dye is a retired environmental advocate and Seattle attorney and mediator with a lifetime interest in the people and the challenges of Haiti. She has been a home-stay for EarthCorps Internationals in her Wallingford home in Seattle since 2005. Jessie’s daughter volunteered in Haiti several times following the 2010 earthquake where she met Djemson Jeudy, learned about his commitment to restoring Haiti’s forests and nominated him for an EarthCorps internship. Djemson lived with Jessie’s family during 2013 as he learned the value of environmental education for children and acquired skills in project and volunteer management with the International program at EarthCorps. Since then, Jessie has been on the leadership team of Positive Action for Haiti and been active in supporting all aspects of the work of the children’s home. Though she’s never been to Haiti Jessie hopes to visit when the new building is completed and the environmental education center is up and running.
Scott Douglas
Scott is a licensed structural engineer and was introduced to Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake. He met PAH’s founder and executive director, Djemson Jeudy, while performing building damage assessments in Leogane, the earthquake’s epicenter. Inspired by that trip, Scott organized a second damage assessment team to Petit Goave two months later. Other international aid work followed, including a three-year deployment to Afghanistan with the US Army Corps of Engineers, building damage assessments after the 2015 Nepal earthquake, and building evaluations in Afghanistan for the Canadian Department of Global Affairs. Scott is also a mentor for the University of Washington student chapter of Engineers Without Borders, advising on EWB projects in Guatemala and Nicaragua. Scott is the PAH coordinator with Architects Without Borders Seattle in the design of the new Children’s Home and Environmental Education Facility in Gonaives.
Adam Dougherty
Adam first met Djemson in Leogane, Haiti after the devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010. They were both volunteers at a non-profit specializing in disaster response. It was then that Djemson spoke about his dream of starting his own non-profit organization, inspired largely because of his families adoption of vulnerable children. Since 2010, Adam and Djemson have kept in close contact working on PAH and slowly over the years Djemson’s dream became a reality. In 2016 PAH became a 501 c3 Non-profit organization.
Adam has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Hawaii and is currently Vice President of PAH since 2015.