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About Us
Church Outreach To Youth Project
Founded in 1983, the Church Outreach To Youth Project (COTY), Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c) organization that gathers volunteers to provide services to as many as 40,000 people in the underserved mountain villages and Caberet region of Haiti.
Among COTY’s accomplishments is The Haiti Plunge, an annual mission that develops sustainable agricultural cooperatives and delivers care to 9 remote mountain villages and the surrounding Caberet region of Haiti.
Since its inception, The Haiti Plunge has assisted villagers in:
- Capping a mountain spring for clean water
- Building a 6-mile road through the mountains
- Building a bakery that serves 6,000 villagers
- Building primary schools in 3 of the 9 villages
- Organizing an ongoing reforestation project
- Building a bush clinic for basic health care
- Developing a habitat project that transforms mud huts into cement houses
- Subsidizing mandatory school tuition through a school sponsorship program
- Planning a secondary school
COTY Development Coordinator Sister Eunice Tassone believes that investing in youth offers the greatest hope for the world’s future. In hosting Haiti Plunge projects for more than 27 years, she has witnessed the power and success that comes from young people helping others and each other. Sister Tassone credits youth with the Haitian American Student Work Exchange Program (HASWEP) with founding and sustaining The Haiti Plunge.
“COTY is a helping hand Haitians need for establishing independence.”
“The goal of COTY is to educate Haitians living in the 9-village agriculture cooperative and surrounding region so that they can sustain their development and progress for a better Haiti,” says Sister Tassone. “In the first 22 years, we helped improve and enable access to schools in the region. We’re now eager to develop Fanmi La Sante (the Family Health Clinic) so that people of the cooperative villages and surrounding Caberet region can get the basic health care they need. Sister Tassone credits youth who have participated in the Haitian American Student Work Exchange Program (HASWEP) with founding and sustaining the Haiti Plunge.
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