Hope for Haiti has been working with the administration of Ecole du St. Espirit de Grande Sable since 2006. At that time the small school in Grand-Sable, Ile-a-Vache provided preschool through second grade classes for 35 children whose families did not have the means to pay the costs associated with private or public education.. Ecole du St. Espirit de Grande Sable found it's roots in a one room school with a dirt floor, palm frond walls and a tin roof that was destroyed during the 2007 hurricane season. In 2009 Hope for Haiti built a five classroom school for the community of Grand Sable. In 2011 five additional classrooms, a cafeteria, library, and administrative offices were built. The school currently enrolls over 100 students (ages 3-13) annually and employees 13 full time personnel.