Haiti Teen Challenge is led and owned by Haitians

Leadership Is Made For Service

​The US Board works in coordination with the Haitian leadership team and the HTC Foundation Board acknowledging that our role is not about how we're going to fix Haiti, but how we are going to walk together with our Haitian brothers and sisters, establishing trust, supporting their leadership, helping them to recognize their resources, build leadership capacity and develop strategy to achieve deep and lasting change.

The HTC Board ensures adherence to mission and accountability by creating a strong strategic plan, communicating strategic direction, monitoring financials, program outcomes and key performance indicators and ensuring that every board decision and goal is to make HTC Haitian Owed, Haitian Led, Haitian supported, and Haitian driven.  The HTC Board also acts as the volunteer staff for administration and fundraising in the US.

  Men's Program Director
Erick Pierre-Val

Erick has been working with youth in Haiti since 2000. He has his B.S. in Social Work from the Faculty of Human Sciences (Haiti) and a Master degree from the University of Montreal (Canada)
Erick has previously held the position of  Program and Advocacy Officer at Micah Challenge. Before Becoming the Men's Program Director at Haiti Teen Challenge, Erick served as Youth Pastor at Rendez Vou Christ Church.
He is currently taking a courses in theology online. Erick and wife are married and have two beautiful daughters. Above all, Erick is a servant of God who receives a call to make a difference in the lives of young people with a difficult past. He stands beside young people because the new Haiti depends on God first and then on them. "Haiti is kneeling, she needs brave young people to get up from the ashes."

Women's Program Director
​Nerlande Coicou

Nerlande has a degree in Applied Sciences in Civil Engineering.  Most of her previous experience is in the field of management of construction work of various types.  She worked for G&L Construction, SETAM, ARTECA and was a consultant in civil engineering for a USAID project under DAI.
She felt rewarded by being able to contribute to the reconstruction of the destroyed irrigation system after Hurricane Jeanne hit the North-West region of Haiti. She will never forget the way one of the team members thanked her for the humanity with which she dealt with him in his work. In a career of almost 50 years no one had treated him with such respect and kindness.
She realized helping in the construction of a building is one thing, but helping to build a life is something quite different and amazing! 
Serving at Haiti Teen Challenge changed her life path and career plan entirely.
Her greatest dream is to be have a long life in order to be able to work and through her work offer hope and a future to our youth and future generations.