Our Founder

• Camille Gauthier is a community leader. He was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on December 21, 1929. He completed his elementary school in Jean Marie Guilloux, a Catholic school. He graduated from Petit Séminaire College St. Martial with a B.A. in Letters and Philosophy. He attended York College where he obtained a Certificate in Operating and Managing a Small Business; another one for Marketing for the Businessman and one in Financial Management for the Small Businessman. He worked for about eleven years for the National Bank of Haiti.

• He migrated to the United States in 1964 and established his home in New York where he began a new life. From 1964 to 1965, he worked at Gim Metal Products, Inc. as a Stock Clerk. From 1965 to 1969, he was employed at Bennet Brothers, Inc. as a File Clerk. He joined Irving Trust Company in 1969 as a Document analyst until he retired in 1988.

• His new life in New York did not prevent him from partaking in social and political activities of his homeland. In 1972, he founded the Toussaint Louverture Foundation, Inc. to help the newly-arrived Haitians in the United States, particularly in the New York metropolitan area, to better assimilate and to provide social services to underprivileged Haitians and others ethnic groups from the Caribbean area. He promoted retention of one's own culture and offered a forum through the Foundation whereby residents, public officials and educators conducted seminar sessions in order to better equipped them in overcoming obstacles and problems they faced.

• In 1988, he moved to Miami and created PANACEA, a quarterly multi-lingual magazine to educate its readers about socio-political and economic issues, culture, health and education.

• To find out more about our Foundation and to make your tax deductible contribution, please e-mail us at lafondation@aol.com or write to:

Toussaint Louverture Foundation
14313 SW 100 Lane
Miami FL 33186-6962 USA