VIA Expands Partnership with Hope for Haiti to Power Secure Stipend Payments for Vulnerable Families, Community Workers
Expansion builds on ongoing nutrition program, strengthening secure, digital payments for community workers in bandwidth-constrained environments
BOSTON, MA, March 26, 2026 – VIA Science, Inc. (VIA) today announced the expansion of its partnership with Hope for Haiti, a nonprofit providing healthcare, education, clean water, and economic development opportunities to individuals in Haiti, to support monthly stipend payments for food-insecure families, staff members, and community workers advancing humanitarian initiatives across southern Haiti.
The expansion builds on the ongoing rollout of VIA’s secure, cashless aid program, which is delivering more than $200,000 in nutritional support to 325 mothers. With stipends already underway for Hope for Haiti’s internal staff and now extending to additional community workers, VIA’s technology is helping to streamline aid operations in low-bandwidth and infrastructure-constrained environments.
“Modern humanitarian work demands safe, efficient systems, and VIA’s technology helps us deliver stipends in a way that improves security, simplifies operations, and keeps our team focused on serving communities across southern Haiti,” said Skyler Badenoch, CEO of Hope for Haiti. “Together, we’re building the infrastructure to scale our programs and reach more families with greater speed and accountability.”
Using VIA’s ultra-secure, smartphone-based application, stipends are delivered digitally, reducing the risks associated with cash distribution while increasing transparency and administrative efficiency.
“Humanitarian organizations operate in environments where infrastructure is often unreliable and security risks are real,” said Kate Ravanis, COO and co-founder of VIA. “We build technology for precisely those conditions. Expanding from direct family support to stipends demonstrates how secure, resilient financial infrastructure can strengthen not only aid delivery, but the organizations delivering that aid.”
The stipend expansion represents the next step in VIA’s broader mission to deliver ultra-secure, ultra-simple technology that performs reliably in disrupted environments, supporting both vulnerable populations and the trusted aid organizations working on their behalf. With increasing interest from international organizations, VIA is exploring expansion into additional countries where secure, transparent digital infrastructure can strengthen humanitarian operations.
About VIA
Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, VIA is a mission-critical software company that enables organizations to share and analyze sensitive, distributed data at speed without compromising security or control. VIA’s decentralized architecture keeps data sovereign, while its agentic AI helps organizations solve critical challenges, and its military-grade security governs access. Designed for simplicity, rapid deployment, and disconnected, contested environments, VIA makes sensitive data usable wherever the mission happens, even offline. The Department of War, federal and state law enforcement, Fortune 50, and critical infrastructure companies around the globe trust VIA to help them solve their toughest analytics and digital security challenges.
About Hope for Haiti
With experience running poverty alleviation programs in Haiti since 1989, Hope for Haiti has emerged as one of the most trusted non-profit organizations working to improve the quality of life for the Haitian people, particularly women and children, in southern Haiti. The organization’s team and network of partners provide people with better access to education, healthcare, clean water, and economic development opportunities. Hope for Haiti is a 4-star-rated charity by Charity Navigator and is a participant at the Platinum Level in the GuideStar Exchange, two leading independent evaluators recognizing the organization’s transparency and careful stewardship of donor resources. Learn more at hopeforhaiti.com.
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