Hope On A String

Empowering communities in Arcahaie, Haiti, with hope, confidence, and lasting change.

Community Empowerment

Hope on a String fosters confidence, skills, and pride through free music and arts programs, driving community-led change in Arcahaie, Haiti.

Healing Through Music

Music helps heal emotional wounds, uniting communities and restoring social bonds after Haiti’s challenges.

A Voice for Change

Through music, communities unite, identify needs, and take collective action toward progress.

Preserving Culture

Hope on a String celebrates Haiti’s rich musical heritage, promoting unity and hope for a brighter future.

about us

Building Hope, Confidence, and Social Capital in Arcahaie

Hope on a String transforms communities in Arcahaie, Haiti, through music, arts, and grassroots initiatives. By offering free classes and workshops, we empower individuals with skills, confidence, and pride, fostering collective growth and long-term social impact.

Hope on a String invests in locally driven change, and ultimately seeks to have a long-term impact on a national level by developing a scalable model for social development in Haiti.

Strengthening Youth and Communities

through music and the arts

Hope on a String operates a community center in the region of Arcahaie, Haiti that is a physical space for community engagement and empowerment through music and performing arts. We also provide music education classes at our partner schools in the Haitian education system. With Hope on a String, individuals participate in music, dance, and performance classes, as well as skill-building workshops and grassroots development initiatives that respond to community needs and goals. In our program, participants build hope, confidence, collective pride, powerful relationships, and skills needed to succeed. Local organizations build critical social capital, positive synergies, and collaborate on mutual goals that advance the community’s interests. 

Employment Opportunities

At Hope on a String

Currently HOAS does not have any open positions available. Be sure to check back in the future for upcoming jobs!

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At Hope on a String, we are committed to creating positive change in the communities we serve. While we currently have no open positions, we encourage you to check back for future employment opportunities. Be part of a team that is dedicated to fostering growth and empowerment through music and the arts in Haiti.

Why Music

A Universal Tool for Healing, Expression, and Unity

Anyone can benefit from music

You don't have to be smart, wealthy, well-connected, or even musically-talented to enjoy music. If it's happening, all you need is to witness its power -- and listen. In a country like Haiti, where the road to a brighter future often requires education, money, connections, talent, and luck, Hope on a String provides a spark of empowerment through music and that leads back to a strengthened community.

Music has the capability to heal deep emotional and psychological wounds

The frustration and grief of the 2010 earthquake further weakened Haiti’s social fabric, threadbare from two hundred years of social strife and corruption. The expression of pain and suffering through music can heal wounds that hinder community unity and sustainable change.

Music gives people the opportunity for a voice

Whether performing or listening, anyone can identify with music. When a community joins together on a physical and emotional level around music, collective power exists. With a strong voice, the community can determine its needs and take action to achieve its goals.

Lastly, music is the lifeblood of Haitian culture

It is a foundation of Haitian creative expression and has been a stabilizing constant through a long history of chaos. Hope on a String builds upon this rich musical tradition to bring about solidarity, unity, and hope for the future

Our Impact

Our impact is felt when

Music and cultural creativity unites people through common purpose and shared experience

Youth see opportunity and reinvest themselves in the community for the long-term

New resources and opportunities arise as a result of the momentum, energy, and empowerment that HOAS creates and then leverages through partnerships with local and international stakeholders

Our programming is implemented locally and on a regional level, but the effect is felt nationally

The community proactively initiates, discusses and executes objectives with collaborative solutions to shared problems

contact us today

We’d love to hear from you! Contact us for any questions, information, or ways to get involved. Together, we can make a meaningful impact on the communities in Haiti.

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