Dr. Saint-Vil is the founder of Haitian Vision Foundation (HVF) and established it to reach out to the disadvantaged, especially impoverished Haitians; to help them to break the poverty barriers so they can be successful. It has been one of his goals since he was a little boy to help others and eventually grew into a desire that is now being fulfilled through HVF.
​Dr. Saint-Vil grew up in northern Haiti near Cap-Haitian (the second principal town of Haiti) in a small town named Dondon and is the oldest of a family of 6 children. At age 13, he moved to Cap-Haitian to continue school and then attended a trade school where he became a certified electrician. After graduation, Dr. Saint-Vil attended high School at Susan Schuenke High School in Haiti. Dr. Saint-Vil then traveled to the Dominican Republic upon completing high school to attend medical school at Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago where he graduated with the honor of magna Cum Laude. He remained and worked in the Dominican Republic for an additional year before pursuing medical training opportunities in the United States due to limited available opportunities in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Currently, Dr. Saint-Vil is a resident at Case Western Reserve University – MetroHealth residency program.

The desire to become a doctor started at age 5 when Dr. Saint-Vil discovered that he was continually and deeply moved by human sufferings of those less fortunate. Over time, that desire grew stronger as he learned of the reality of health care throughout the world through experience. Dr. Saint-Vil’s motivation has grown stronger as he faced several obstacles on the way to success. Dr. Saint-Vil says it has been a blessing to have had help from a large number of people that God has put in his life to help him become successful. HVF helps Dr. Saint-Vil to achieve his dream through helping today’s youth and young adults by sharing his own inspiring story and providing the resources they need to end their poverty cycle. In founding HVF, Dr. Saint-Vil and others with the same vision are able to make a positive difference through working in global health and be a full friend of helping people on a global scale.

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Ms. Siler is a teacher, office manager/executive assistant at an internal medicine doctor’s office, and free lance business consultant. She has always had a passion for helping people, especially when it comes to serving and meeting the needs of youth of all ages.  It is this desire to help which has drawn her into the world of nonprofits and brought her to Haitian Vision Foundation.
Although beginning as cashier/receptionist at Martin Nissan, Ms. Siler has embraced every opportunity to grow and learn various aspects about running a business and meeting the needs of employees and clients. Her experience spans diverse industries from volunteering in the fine arts at Camp Judah and Grace for the Nations Church to working in logistics as a manager with A-Home Business Network Corp. She has served as an educator in the roles of a substitute teacher for schools in the New Albany and Clarksville, IN and Louisville, KY, as a math fellow assisting high school youth at Harlan High School for the University of Chicago through Match Education, and, currently, a teacher at Huntington Learning Center. These diverse experiences have helped to make her into the consultant, educator, mentor, and businesswoman she is today.
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Ms. Siler graduated with a bachelor in biomedical science and a minor in management from Grand Valley State University and now holds a masters degree from Bellarmine University. With her MBA, Ms. Siler brings administration, organization, attention to often overlooked details, and a fresh perspective. In her spare time, Ms. Siler is a classical violinist who also enjoys cooking, ballroom dancing (latin and smooth/standard), reading, swimming, volunteering at Random Acts of Flowers, and spending time with family and friends.

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I am an internist and rheumatologist currently practicing at the Cleveland Louis Stokes Veterans Administration Medical Center. During my senior year of training at MetroHealth Hospital in Cleveland. I had the honor of working hands-on at Parirenyatwa General Hospital and Sanyati Baptist Hospital in Zimbabwe. More recently I was able to participate in rounds and observe clinics at both Mulago Hospital and Nsambya Hospital, in Kampala, Uganda where my wife has ongoing research. Unfortunately, the health care challenges I observed in Africa can also be found in Haiti, not even a 2-hour flight from Miami. When I met Dr. Saint-Vil and heard about his vision for health care, education and empowerment for Haitians, I knew this was a vision that deserved support.  Now after traveling to Haiti for a mobile clinic in August 2018, and seeing the difference that Haitian Vision Foundation is making on the ground, I am even more enthusiastic about what we are doing there!

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Lydia is currently a student in the Masters of Science in Urban Studies program at Cleveland State University, specializing in Community Development and Nonprofit Administration. She is also working as a graduate assistant, conducting research in Economic Development. Her parent’s involvement with a mission hospital in Limbe, Haiti led to an early interest in the needs of the Haitian people, and it is through them that she had the opportunity to meet Dr. Saint-Vil and learn about HVF. Before starting graduate school, Lydia worked as a teacher, and spent three years in Miami, Florida, living and teaching middle school in Little Haiti, one of the largest Haitian communities in the United States. Her time in this community, and the opportunity to make several short visits to Limbe, cultivated a desire to see the restoration and redevelopment of Haitian communities.

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Dhweeja Dasarathy is a senior at Harvard University, majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology and minoring in Global Health and Health Policy. She is a native of Cleveland and graduated from Hawken School in 2017. In addition to her involvement with the Haitian Vision Foundation, she developed a STEM initiative for underprivileged children in a village in rural south India with a predominantly underserved population. She uses Skype to currently teach students about research and has assisted them in conducting their own science projects using local, easily available, and inexpensive resources. She has traveled around the world to work with various nonprofits, including in Nicaragua and India; she has volunteered her time with the Doctors in the Street program in Cleveland, at St. Malachi’s church near downtown Cleveland, which provides flu shots and other vaccines, as well as other over the counter medications to the homeless. Outside of the classroom, Dhweeja excels in classical Indian dance and is the youngest graduate of her dance academy. 

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