The PEARLS team is comprised of professionals bringing decades of experience and expertise to the organization.
Rachel Mills
PEARLS Director
Gahanna, OH
Rachel founded PEARLS in Haiti in the fall of 2017 after spending over twenty years learning, experiencing, traveling, serving and building relationships as a staff and board member for nonprofits working in Haiti. She is a fundraiser, writer, teacher, speaker and short-term team leader.
In addition to Haiti, Rachel is passionate about her family and dedicates most of her time to them. She has an adult son and two daughters, Madeline and Emma. Emma was adopted from Haiti in 2010.
Sainfait Exius
School Director
Bonnette, Haiti
Sainfait Exius, the owner and director of The Village School of the Future, is passionate about education and community development. Born in Madame Beauge, a neighborhood of Bonnette, he opened the school in response to the desperate need for education in his community. Sainfait’s goal was and continues to be to provide a quality education to every child no matter their family’s ability to pay.
In addition to the school, Sainfait owns a tap-tap business which is used as an ambulance in Bonnette and has helped save many lives in the community. His tap-tap is available to bus children who require transportation to school as well. Sainfait also farms shallots. Shallots are regularly used in Haitian cuisine and are a crop suited for that area. He is teaching others how they can farm shallots to better provide for their families.
Sainfait and his wife, Rosemarie, have three daughters and one son. They live in Bonnette.
Kim Wiley
Finance Coordinator
Columbus, OH
Kim was introduced to the beautiful country of Haiti in 1995 when she began working stateside for a Christian health development agency. Kim spent the next 15 years providing financial and administrative support to this ministry. Kim and her husband, Jonathan, enjoy spending time with their three children and are active in various ministries at Grace Polaris Church, including AWANA, where Johnathan serves as the Community and Connections Pastor. Kim is excited to use her skills and experience for PEARLS in Haiti.