It's all these hugs and warm thoughts that kept me sane these last 2 days. Thank you :) And after this, I'm not coming back to this thread otherwise it will keep hogging precious room from yah, sex, haggis or whatever the lounge subject is this week ;)
Good news is that Barbara Lee & Maxine Waters are sponsoring bills. The Haitian people are asking for our support in getting our reps to
sponsor legislation to release funding to the Government of Haiti that can ease the suffering of the Haitian people, including Congresswoman Barbara Lee's HR 3386, "New Partnership for Haiti," and Congresswoman Maxine Waters' HR 1108, "Access to Capital for Haiti's Development Act."
For those of you who asked for numbers, here are some I found so far:
Congressional Switchboard 800.839.5276 or 202.224.3121
Nancy Pelosi's SF Office 415.556.4862
White House Comment Line 202.456.1111
U.S. State Department 202.647.5291 or 202.647.7098 (phone)
202.647.2283 or 202.647.5169 (fax)
for more information, contact the Haiti Action Committee:
www.haitiaction.net -
[email protected] - 510.483.7481
You can also find information/news here:
http://www.haitireborn.org/ I can't vouch for Haiti Reborn- I have no idea who runs it but they are accepting donations
http://www.haitireborn.org/what-you-can-do/Also, from their site, here are a ton of organizations that try to help.
Peace to all my friends & THANK YOU I really love you guys.
:loveya: eternally
Alternative Chance/Chans Alternativ
c/o Lynx Air International
PO Box 407139
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33340
Michelle Karshan, Executive Director
(011509) 404-1546 (cell)
(212) 613-6033 (answering service in NY)
[email protected]Based in Haiti, Alternative Chance is a self-help peer counseling program founded in 1996 by Michelle Karshan together with criminal deportees. The program advocates on their behalf prior to deportation, while incarcerated upon their arrival in Haiti, and during their integration into Haitian society. Alternative Chance challenges the injustices of US immigration policies and assists immigration attorneys in fighting against deportation. Current services include an orientation manual for adjusting to Haiti, emergency services, job counseling and some sponsorship in job training, wrongful deportation screening, an English lending library, peer counseling and referrals to services, alternatives to violence workshops, family mediation and counseling, and a public education campaign. Alternative Chance sponsors a library in Haiti's National Penitentiary and works in partnership with Health Through Walls, providing limited healthcare in the National Penitentiary.
American Friends Service Committee
Contact: Denise R. Davis
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215 241-7016
215 241-7026 (Fax)
[email protected]www.afsc.org
Started in 1989 at the end of the repressive Duvalier dictatorship, AFSC-Haiti works with more than 120 community-based groups in rural fishing towns and subsistence agricultural communities in the remote southwestern coastal area of the Grand Anse Department. The program is helping these communities make tangible improvements in their health and economy while creating the framework for a democratic society at the grassroots. There are four components: community health, economic development, education and community organizing, and institutional development.
The community health component works through 32 trained local health agents and more than fifty volunteers to provide health education, such as interactive workshops on family planning, child nutrition and recuperation, sanitation, and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS. It also provides preventive health services, such as child vaccination, and tuberculosis screening. Professional medical staff serve the area's 40,000 people from the newly constructed AFSC Health and Training Center in Irois.
The economic development component offers farmers training and technical assistance to improve crop yields, plant vegetable gardens for better diets, reintroduce the Creole pig (a vital resource for local families), vaccinate livestock and chickens, and reforest slopes with fruit and other valuable trees (e.g., papaya, citrus) to prevent erosion and provide income.
The education and community organizing component is the axle of the program, enabling community-based groups to develop their capacity and vision to transform themselves. Through this very important component, the groups learn how to plan, manage, and implement local projects, as well as to work together to solve local problems. They are trained in democratic procedures, accountability, gender issues, development of women's leadership skills, and adult literacy.
The institutional development component helps staff, all Haitian, strengthen their administrative skills and develop structures for accountability and governance. The long-range goal of AFSC-Haiti is for staff and community supporters to create an autonomous, independent NGO of their own to carry on this work.
Antwan Izmery Center for Peace
Delmas 33
#6 Rue A Martial
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Contact: Ron Voss, Bertony Domond
(509)246-3469, fax: same
[email protected]The Izmery Center works in collaboration with the Visitation House in the capital. It houses the offices of Pax Christi Haiti and the Haitian Solidarity Network of the Northeast; serves as an educational center (literacy, library, scholarship) for the neighborhood, and contains a medical laboratory with plans to add a tool bank and FONKOZE office.
Art for Life
4240 Alton Place
Washington, DC 20016
Contact: Lora Iannotti
202-237-8053
[email protected]Art for Life began in the spring of 1996 as a development project of Hands Together, Inc. Art for Life promotes and sells the arts and crafts of Haitian artists, including handmade statues, masks, decorative boxes and many other items. The profits from these sales go directly to the artists and their families.
Association for Haitian American Development, Inc. (AHAD)
AHAD/Creole Connection
P.O. Box 158
Atlanta, GA 30009-0158
Contact: Serge Declama
404-510-5581
[email protected]www.ahadonline.org
Publishes Creole Connection
Our mission is to bring awareness about Haiti and her people. Present information based on facts. Establish linkage between Haiti and the rest of the world. Promote unity, cohesion among all cultures as well as embracing our culture.
The Association of the Peasants of Fondwa (APF)
P.O. Box 13062
Delmas, Haiti WI
Contact: Fr. Joseph Philippe, CSSP
509-245-4230 phone
509-221-7520 fax
[email protected]www.ufondwa.org
APF is a membership organization founded in Fondwa on April 24th, 1988. Its goal is to empower the people of Fondwa and their neighbors to assume responsibility for their own lives in their rural communities. Its objectives are to work together with its members as one single body to create basic infrastructures and to provide needed facilities to help the people to get access to roads, water, healthcare, education, financial services, and technical assistance, especially for agricultural and animal husbandry activities.
Last year, we had 8 international volunteers working with us. Currently, we have a school of 725 children (kindergarten, primary and secondary.) In the last 10 years, we gave scholarships to 18 young people from Fondwa to go to study in France, Trinidad and Cuba. All of them came back to work with us in Fondwa. Right now, most of them form the leadership of APF. For us, education is the powerful means to fight against misery and poverty in Haiti.
Our newest project is to set up in 2004 a University in the mountains of Fondwa, for all of the 565 rural communities of Haiti. It will be based on the Cuban model of universities in the mountains. We will train graduated high school students from the rural communities in agronomy, veterinary medicine, and management. We will train them in four languages: Creole, French, Spanish, and English. We will try to get a sponsor to finance their education. In return, the students will sign an agreement with their sponsors to accept to return to their home villages after their graduation to work on the sustainable development of their community. This University Project, The University of Fondwa 2004 "UNIF 2004" will start in Fondwa on January 5, 2004.
We are looking for long-term volunteer teachers in business, English (TOEFL), and computer science. We are also looking for librarians, managers, computers, material for a veterinarian laboratory, and cafeteria equipment. If you are interested in helping, please email us.
Bees'n Trees/Myel ak Pyebwa
C.P. 15880
HT-6140 Petion-Ville
HA (W.I.)
Contact person: Philippe Allouard
(509)551-0465 phone (Haiti)
[email protected]Bees'n Trees is a small association that that uses beekeeping is an efficient way to teach young Haitians the value of trees. Our first goal is to establish a beekeeping school in a rural area (Deluge), and to later expand to other areas if possible.
Through the teaching and practice of beekeeping, we aim to have as many people as possible involved in protecting and planting trees. Depending on the availability of funding, we will buy land to plant honey-source trees (mango-trees, palm-trees, pye chenn, pye kenep,etc.).
Beyond Borders
P.O. Box 2132
Norristown PA 19404
Contact: David Diggs in D.C., Jonathan Haggard in PA
202-686-2088 (Washington, DC) 610-277-5045 (Philadelphia)
[email protected] or
[email protected]www.beyondborders.net
Beyond Borders is a group of people who join together out of devotion to Christ to work for justice and peace by fostering transformative learning within and across cultural and economic borders. We foster transformative learning by: supporting indigenous organizations in Haiti; placing volunteers who are seeking to learn from, and live out the gospel within Haitian communities; hosting short visits of small groups of people from industrialized countries who want to learn more about how to confront human misery and hunger in the world.
Center for Economic Justice
202 Harvard Dr, SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
(505) 232-3100 phone
(505) 232-3101 fax
www.econjustice.net
Center for Economic Justice
World Bank Bonds Boycott
733 15th St, NW, Suite 928
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 393-6665 phone
(202) 393-1358 fax
www.econjustice.net/wbbb
Strengthens Haitian movement's fight against neoliberalism and for economic justice.
Christian Service International
804 W McGalliard Road
Muncie IN 47303
Contact: Lenville Gross (Muncie)
Greg Benson (Port-au-Prince)
765-286-0711
509-257-7849 (Port-au-Prince)
765-286-5773 fax
[email protected]Christian Service International (CSI) operates a clinic approximately 12 miles east of Port-au-Prince. Medical and dental volunteers are needed to serve on teams. CSI also maintains a Mission House where teams and in-country missionaries stay. CSI operates teams year round for construction, medical, VBS, feeding programs, evangelism and introduction to mission teams.
Clean Water for Haiti
c/o Vernon Alliance Church
2601-43rd Ave
Vernon, British Columbia, Canada V1T 3L1
509-547-3210 phone (Haiti)
[email protected]www.cleanwaterforhaiti.org
Clean Water for Haiti mission provides training for micro-enterprise start-up in BioSand (Canadian) water filter manufacturing and installation. The intention of the training program is to educate and empower Haitians to start a small business that offers a vital service to the country; concrete water filters that give affordable, clean water. This Mission has been offering training since May 2002 in the Pierre Payen area. It is also involved in the drilling of community water wells for the Cup of Cold Water ministry in cooperation with local water committees.
Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Contact: Larry Birns
1730 M Street, NW Suite 1010
Washington, DC 20036
202-216-9216 phone
202-223-6035 fax
[email protected]www.coha.org
The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) publishes a biweekly newsletter, "The Washington Report on the Hemisphere." Many times we have published articles that feature Haitian issues. In search for pertinent Haitian issues, we have become quite knowledgeable about the country.
The Creole Clearinghouse
P.O. Box 181015
Boston, MA 02118
Contact: Marilyn Mason
617-247-8885 phone
617-262-8923 fax
[email protected]http://hometown.aol.com/CreoleCH/Index6.htmlThe Creole Clearinghouse (TCC), in collaboration with a network of Haitian Creole specialists, makes use of software tools created by Marilyn Mason (founder of MIT2) to improve the consistency and excellence of materials translated and produced in Haitian Creole. TCC provides services to governmental and non-governmental agencies, school systems, academic institutions, industrial and commercial enterprises, translation agencies, translators, editors, and publishers to digitize out-dated print-published texts which have never before existed in electronic format, orthographically update digitized texts, provide specialized value-added editing services, provide online publishing services, custom-design publishing workflow systems and processes, verify conformance to official orthographical standards of translator output, etc. TCC hosts The Creole Links Page (
http://hometown.aol.com/mit2haiti/Index4.html), a growing and very up-to-date assortment of links to online texts in Haitian Creole, as well as to Creole dictionaries, language tools and resources, literacy and curriculum materials, and other educational resources, as well as to many Haitian culture- and history-related sites and documents.
Crowing Rooster Arts
180 West Broadway, #302
New York, NY 10013
212-334-6260
fax
[email protected]www.crowingrooster.org
Crowing Rooster Arts produces film and videos which chronicle, analyze and give life to Haiti's continuing struggle for democracy and self-determination. We also produce audio tapes and CDs of music and poetry from some of Haiti's most renowned artists, as well as work from those unknown.
Deaf World Ministries
291 LaCosta Street
Nokomis Florida 34275
Contact: Louis Foxwell
941-480-1230
[email protected]www.homestead.com/foxwell/deafworldministries.html
Working with deaf groups in three Haitian cities.
10th Department Organization for Haitian Empowerment (10th DOHE)
PO Box 2322
Washington, DC 20013-2322
Contact: Mildred Charles, M.A., Executive Director
202-452-5511 phone
202-452-5512 fax
[email protected]www.10thdepartment.org
The 10th Department Organization for Haitian Empowerment (10th DOHE) is a nonprofit organization that seeks to strengthen transnational ties between Haiti, international communities and the Haitian Diaspora to dispel negative stereotypes against Haitian people. The 10th DOHE will accomplish its mission by providing networking opportunities to facilitate positive social change through education, cultural awareness, grassroots mobilization, advocacy initiatives, and information exchange.
Dorsainvil Foundation
P. O Box 279
Westbury NY 11590
Contact: Dr. Pierre Dorsainvil, founder and president
516-997-2677 phone
516-333-5064 fax
[email protected]An interesting link:
http://antonnews.com/westburytimes/2002/12/13/news/haiti.htmlThe Dorsainvil Foundation is a private, non-profit organization of dedicated volunteers of many disciplines engaged in providing adequate health care to all individuals. The Foundation sponsors a free medical clinic which operates in Arcahaie, Haiti through the generosity of various pharmaceutical companies and private/corporate sponsors within Haiti and abroad, particularly in the United States.
Our goals are many and complex, but it is the vision of the Dorsainvil Foundation to expand and make the transition from a small, but modest health facility, to a fully equipped and functioning inpatient hospital and outpatient center with a compassionate staff accepting all persons in need of its services regardless of social status.
EchodHaiti.com
P.O. Box 13007
Silver Spring, MD 20911
Contact: Ginau Mathurin
[email protected]www.echodhaiti.com
EchodHaiti is a website promoting Haitian culture in the United States. The site does not focus on political issues, but rather on culture, people, and history.
"EDEM"
P.O. Box 3313
Framingham, MA 01705-3313
Contact: Jean-Patrick Lucien
508-877-1695 phone
[email protected] www.edem2.org
EDEM Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide access to opportunities for the children of Haiti through sustainable education, agriculture, farming and community development. (Edem is Haitian Kreyol for "Help Me"). Goals and Objectives: To raise funds to create activities that promote the empowerment of children. To develop a sustainable village model for rural Haiti. To use technology as a tool to educate children in rural areas. To provide safe drinking water to communities by pumping and treating underground water.
Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean (EPICA)
1470 Irving Street, NW
Washington DC 20010
Contact: Scott Wright or Kathy Ogle
202332-0292
202-332-1184 fax
[email protected]www.epica.org
EPICA works in solidarity with the people of Haiti, popular organizations and the church to promote social and economic justice and a just U.S. policy toward Haiti. We do this through publications, delegations, and advocacy work.
"EFO PA NOU"
P.O. Box 1442
Stamford, CT 06904
Contact: Verna Brice
(203) 335-4881 phone
(203) 324-9322 fax
[email protected] www.efopanou.org
EFO PA NOU is a Haitian Board of charities created March 14, 1999 for overseas development in the field of school facilities for needy children of Haiti. Our mission is first, promote life and education for needy children of Haiti. Second, share love and hope. Third, help Haiti to reduce the rate of illiteracy and build the future of this country through its own children. In other words, like the old adage: "Teach them how to fish today so, they may feed themselves tomorrow". EFO PA NOU assist 330 children in Haiti. 18 of them from Port-au-Prince and 312 from Gilles-Miragoane. We send them to school and pay the fees as a scholarship.
Eighth Day Center for Justice
205 W. Monroe
Chicago IL 60606
Contact: Kathleen Desautels, SP
312-641-5151
312-641-1250 fax
[email protected]8th Day Center for Justice works in collaboration with the "Tenth Dept" and other justice activists, both locally and nationally, to support and advocate for the self-determination of the Haitian people.
Ekol Bazilo
Contact: Rivka Jade Dubitsky in Oakland, CA
510-388-6961
[email protected]Or:
in Kreyol or French only:
C/o Louis Leslie Marcelin (Zao) & Mireille Stephens Marcelin in
Mon Lopital, Port-au-Prince
011-556-6918,
011-557-1556 (cell)
011-257-2727 (Radio Haiti)
Mailing Address in Haiti:
Impasse Eddy #64
Carfou-Feuilles, Port-au-Prince
HAITI (W.I)
"Ekol Bazilo is a school for homeless and indigent Haitian girls and boys, ages 3-15, who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford an education. The school asks families to donate $5 Haitian ($1.50 U.S.)/ Month, compared to $150 H. /month at other schools, when possible to cover costs. Studies include: Kreyol literacy, English, writing, Haitian history, math, design, painting, crafts, song, music, drums, dance, poetry, and spirituality. During the summer, Ekol Bazilo offers a camp with much the same schedule, culminating in an ensemble performance. The school offers one healthy meal a day to the kids, some of whom don't otherwise eat. Facilities include: The kitchen and front 2 rooms of the Marcelins' home,(cinderblock walls, dirt floor, no doors, no running water, no refrigeration, kerosene burners & charcoal fire, bucket baths, candlelight, single-outlet electricity, 2 tables, 3 chairs), the porch, the front yard, 1 roofed open-air structure, and a 2-stall outhouse, The 15 faculty members work full-time as volunteers. Most have been there since the school's inception 5 years ago. The school receives no subsidies. It exists solely on the community's meager donations, the Marcelins' finite resources, and the goodwill of occasional foreign supporters. Ekol Bazilo would like to be able to afford food, school and art supplies, clothes, furniture, media & communications equipment, bicycles, several buses and/or cars, field trips, salaries, and the construction of a bathroom, a dining hall, a rainwater reservoir, and a temple. Ekol Bazilo also invites international volunteer teachers. No professional experience needed. Kreyol or French language basics, open mind, and strong spirit essential.
"Sant de Sante" is a community free health clinic that provides vaccinations, nutritional & general health consulting, and limited medication to approximately 400 children and adults who otherwise would not be able to afford health care. The center, currently a table in the Marcelins' front yard, is staffed by 3 trained volunteer nurses. Sant de Sante would like to be able to afford medicine, a refrigerator, medical equipment, an office & laboratory, a medical library, salaries, further schooling, and knowledgeable doctors. The center also welcomes international doctors, nurses, and naturopaths to volunteer medical services
"Organizasyon Famn" is a women's group that focuses on family planning and assertiveness training for the prevention of sexual violence. The organization empowers the women in a male-dominant community to co-create a supportive network of strong, motivated female mentors. Organizasyon Famn would like to be able to afford books, promotional materials, ob/gyn equipment & supplies, and salaries.
"Mon L'Opital Artisans' Co-op" (M.O.A.C) is a community-based arts and crafts cooperative that showcases the following products: Relief & flat canvas paintings, clothing, leather & beaded jewelry, hand-knit hats & bags, paper floral decorations, recycled metal & ceramic sculpture, and traditional instruments. M.O.A.C. would like to be able to afford supplies, promotional materials, shipping costs, further schooling, and a storefront/workshop. M.O.A.C. also welcomes importers to promote their goods abroad and international, volunteer craft teachers to share employable skills with local artisans.
"Sosyete Bazilo Djakata" (Society of God's Drum as the Universal Foundation) is a talented and soulful racine (Haitian/Vodun roots music w/ conscious lyrics) band/performance troupe founded by Zao, father of the sanba (roots musicians for eco-socio-political change) movement. The band has performed at and produced international events, offered folkloric drum/song/dance workshops, and produced several albums and videos. Sosyete Bazilo Djakata would like to be able to afford to go on international tour and produce more recordings. The band welcomes international promoters/agents to provide supply travel visas, line up gigs, subsidize studio time, and fund mixing and recording equipment.
Espoir Center for Caribbean Arts & Culture
421 East Ferry Street
Detroit Michigan 48202
313-342-6174 (Vice-Chair: Julio Bateau)
313-927-1352 (Krik Krak ed. Dr. Karen F. Davis)
313-342-6174 or 313-927-1345 fax
[email protected]or
[email protected] (Jean Alce, Chairman)
Espoir began in 1986 as an educational, cultural, and charitable organization primarily focused on Haiti; however, board members have always included people from other Caribbean nations. In the past, Espoir has sent direct funding to Haiti for social welfare projects, supported Eye Care, Inc. through hosting annual Haitian art sales in Detroit, assisted efforts in settling Haitian refugees in Michigan, and sponsored essay contests on Caribbean themes for high school students (with cash awards for use in college). We are currently focused on completing the development of the Center for Caribbean Arts & Culture, as far as we know only the second Caribbean Center in the USA (after New York), and developing educational and cultural programming to be housed at the Center. We publish an occasional newsletter, Krik Krak.
Essential Action
P.O. Box 19405
Washington DC 20036
Contact: Ann Leonard
202-387-8030
202-234-5176 fax
[email protected]www.essential.org/action/return
Essential Action and Multinationals Resource Center are related organizations which work on international environmental, labor, health and related issues. Essential Action is the campaigning arm of Multinationals Resource Center. Essential Action engages in international environmental and related campaigns in partnership with Third World Activists. Essential Action is a coordinator of Project Return to Sender the campaign to clean up Philadelphia's waste dumped in Haiti.
The Experiment in Alternative Leadership (a Beyond Borders and Limye Lavi affiliated project)
Mailing address:
c/o Lynx Air
P.O. Box 407139
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33340
Physical address:
Rue Borno
Prolonge Mariaman Haiti
Contact: John Engle
509-550-1636
[email protected]www.beyondborders.net/experiment.htm
Cultivating knowledge and experience in practices, principles and structures that foster empowerment and social transformation.
Foundation Tet Kole
44 rue de Creac
Jacmel, Haiti
Contact Person: JEAN JULIEN Verbo
(509)288-3085 phone/fax
[email protected][email protected]www.avanseorg.org
Tet Kole works with street children in Jacmel to help them become successful citizens integrated into their families and communities.
The uniqueness of this project is found in it's values of inclusivity and respect and in its goal to assist children to form or reform healthy relationships with their family and community.
Tet Kole ensures that the children are enrolled in and attending school, provided books, fees, uniforms and after school learning programs. We ensure that the children know and practice basic personal hygiene, have adequate and clean clothing and their basic nutritional needs met. We work with the parents or guardians to help them improve their own situation and their relationship with their children; both children and their families are encouraged to participate in programs. Community members are also encouraged to participate in a variety of ways. Please visit us through our website, or if you are in Jacmel....PLEASE stop by our house.
Fonkoze
Ave Jean Paul II, #7 (alentery)
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Contact: Anne Hastings, Director
011-509-221-7631 or 41
011-509-221-7520 fax
[email protected]www.fonkoze.org
Fonkoze is Haiti's Alternative Bank for the Organized Poor. I is an economic alliance of more than 2,900 peasant organizations, women's collectives, cooperatives, credit unions, "ti machann" (women street vendor) groups, and religious communities, from all sections of the country. Fonkoze is dedicated to rebuilding Haiti's economy by empowering people and community organizations to engage in successful, income-producing economic activities. It provides a full range of financial and educational services necessary to help the women and men of Haiti participate successfully in the economy, including:
? A remittances program
? Micro-credit loans to women street vendors
? A full range of savings accounts
? Currency exchange
? Literacy and business skills training
? Business development loans
? Technical assistance
Fonkoze has 17 offices in the countryside, located in every department in Haiti; over 32,000 savings accounts; and more than 10,000 active borrowers. Over 90% of Fonkoze's borrowers are women!
Fonkoze USA
P.O. Box 53144
Washington DC 20009
Contact: Leigh Carter, Executive Director
202-667-1277
202-667-1277 fax
[email protected]www.fonkoze.org
Fonkoze USA is a U.S. organization with a mission of supporting grassroots economic development in Haiti, Specifically by working through Fonkozeaiti's Alternative Bank for the Organized Poor.
For Haiti with Love, Inc.
P.O. Box 1017
Palm Harbor FL 34683
727-938-3245
727-942-6945 fax
[email protected]www.forhaitiwithlove.org
On a trip in the winter of 1968-69 Don DeHart left a piece of his heart in the mountains of North Haiti and has been going back to "visit it" since.
In 1982 "For Haiti with Love, inc." was incorporated and got its 501(c)(3) so that those wanting to help could have their tax deductions for the gifts. Serving God in Haiti is a full time dedication. Taking not one cent for God's gifts, current programs include: 24/7 Emergency Medical clinic specializing in burns, food program feeding thousands regular nutritionally balanced meals that they take home, cook themselves and eat with dignity as a family. FHL has built more than 50 homes for families; and have built marketplaces for seven villages of the north of Haiti. With self-help programs, job programs, pain relief and food for the starving, the people served know that these gifts are from God. FHL has no single major source of funding and takes no governmental money. It is a faith mission serving immediate needs with immediate solutions to the Glory of God.
Friends of the Children of Haiti
Rue FOTCOH #1
Cyvadier, Haiti
Contact: Richard G. Hammond
509-451-3358
[email protected]www.fotcoh.org
The Friends of the Children of Haiti (FOTCOH) provides basic health care services for patients at their outpatient clinic in Cyvadier (three miles east of Jacmel) on the southern coast of Haiti. FOTCOH handles 9,000+ patient visits per year
Friends of Holly University
P.O. Box 21
Hampton, Ontario
Canada L0B 1J0
Contact: Dr. John Veldhuis
Supports the University in Port-au-Prince and makes possible the exchange of North American and Haitian students.
Friends of the People of Haiti
3026 45th Street
Moline, Illinois 61265
Contact: Sally Moseley, President
Mike Moseley:
[email protected]Diana Lovett:
[email protected]Vanessa Trice:
[email protected] We sponsor St. Anne's Parish in Trouin, Haiti. We share our material wealth by providing regular financial support to the parish and its parish-operated schools. We pray individually and as a group for the welfare of St. Anne's parishioners. We work to foster awareness of the plight of the Haitian people.
Friends of the Third World, Inc.
611 W Wayne Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46802 2167
260 422 6821 phone
260 422 1650 fax
[email protected]www.friendsofthethirdworld.org
Friends started in 1972 with students and teachers in Indiana who wanted to address the root causes of poverty. Friends has six chapters in 4 states organized by volunteers who organize fair trade marketing projects, and technical assistance projects, including grant-writing assistance for grassroots projects, now in 40 countries. With Haiti we have worked with several faith based and community cooperatives with marketing of carvings, clothing, jewelry, and other handcrafted items. We are working with a new project to market Haitian fairly traded coffee.
Future Hope International
Haiti Country Coordinator
Contact: Heather Flanders
E-mail:
[email protected]Our mission is to help children in Haiti that would not otherwise have a chance, to go to school. We currently support one hundred children going to six different schools. We are trying to find as many contacts as possible.
Global Exchange
2017 Mission Street, Suite 303
San Francisco CA 94110
Contact: Karolo Aparicio
415-255-7296 x 226
415-255-7498 fax
[email protected]www.globalexchange.org
Reality Tours, a division of Global Exchange, organizes and leads at least two delegations a year to travel to Haiti for an educational perspective on current political and economic issues. We meet with community leaders and members of grassroots organizations in order to build a stronger relationship with a wider network of supporters in the U.S.
God's Littlest Angels, Inc.
Thomassin 32, Rue Aime
Bastien, Imp. Paul #2
Petionville, Haiti
509-511-6475 Phone (Haiti)
2085 Crystal River Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80915
719-574-7134 phone (USA)
719-550-9741 fax (USA)
Contacts: In Haiti, John & Dixie Bickel; In US, Jean Bell
[email protected] (Haiti)
[email protected] (US)
www.gla-missions.org
Not for profit medical mission caring for premature, malnourished, and abandoned infants and toddlers. Only facility in the area providing neonatal intensive care. Abandoned infants are available for adoption.
Grassroots International
179 Boylston Street, 4th Floor
Boston, MA 02130
617-524-1400 phone
617-524-5525 fax
[email protected]www.grassrootsonline.org
Grassroots International promotes global justice through partnerships with social change organizations. We work to advance political, economic and social rights and support development alternatives through grantmaking, education and advocacy. In Haiti, we support sustainable development and human rights with a focus on food security and stemming the tide of environmental degradation.
The Haiti Connection
206 New Bern Place
Raleigh, NC 27601
Contact: Bonnie Elam, Director
919-786-4478
[email protected]www.thehaiticonnection.org
The Haiti Connection provides information and support to individuals and organizations that collaborate on spiritual, medical, educational, and cultural exchanges between Haiti and the United States. We provide an effective source for exchange of information among individuals and groups and support for numerous projects. We have monthly meetings and semi-annual conferences. Our web site provides a calendar of trips and contacts for those who use the information to enhance existing programs initiate new projects, for the exchange of supplies and as a resource in case of an emergency.
Haiti Friendship Ministries
14 Lewis Place
Piscataway NJ 08854
Contact: Joel and Wendy Goldstein
732-968-2897
[email protected][email protected]The Haiti Friendship Ministries, a ministry of Missionary Ventures International, is basically child sponsorship programs with an emphasis on relationships between members of a church in the U.S. and children in a particular school in Haiti, along with their families and community. The $20/month donated by a sponsor goes fully toward the teachers' salaries and a lunch program and ensures that their child will benefit from everything in the program.
Haiti Global Village, Port Haiti
Contact: Henri Deschamps
www.i-port.net
www.haitiglobalvillage.com
Port Haiti is the internet information port dedicated to Haiti and to the Haitian people.
Haiti Medical Mission of Wisconsin
122 E. Gilman St. #302
Madison, WI 53703
Contact: Billee Bayou, Coordinator
(608) 256-3650 phone
(608) 266-3558 phone (alt)
[email protected]www.haitimedicalmission.com
We are an interdenominational group of volunteer medical professionals who provide medical care to the people of Thiotte, Haiti and the surrounding area (in southeast :Haiti). We send teams of 12-13 people, usually three or four providers, a pharmacist, two to three nurses, a lab tech, a surgeon, a scrub tech, and a few to help with triage, registration and crowd control. We have built a clinic and are in the process of building a hospital. We are partnered with the Parish Twinning Program of the Americas. We welcome any medical professionals who want to be a part of our work. The cost is $525 plus airfare.
Haiti Outreach Project/ Office of Missions and Outreach
Diocese of Grand Rapids, MI
650 Burton St. SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49507
Contact:
616-248-3030
616-248-3437 fax
www.dioceseofgrandrapids.org
"To be a visible demonstration of God's Love to the people of Haiti." Participate in promoting Parish Twinning, School Twinning, etc. Reverse Missions to educate and equip participants to advocate on behalf of Haiti. Emergency funding to respond to emergency critical needs of the Haitian people. Natural disaster or personal needs such as medical.
Haiti Progress Newspaper
1398 Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
718-434-8100
718-454-5551 fax
[email protected]www.haitiprogres.com
Founded in 1983, Haiti Progres is a progressive weekly newspaper which covers events in Haiti and in the diaspora. Articles in French, Creole and English. Offices in Brooklyn, NY and Port-au-Prince. Internships available.
Haiti Reborn/Quixote Center, Inc.
P.O. Box 5206
Hyattsville MD 20782
Contact: Melinda Miles and Eugenia Charles-Mathurin
301-699-0042
301-864-2182 fax
[email protected]www.haitireborn.org
Haiti Reborn, a project of the Quixote Center, works in the United States on behalf of the Haitian people to build an active, grassroots solidarity movement and to advocate for a more just U.S. foreign policy. Haiti Reborn acts as a center of information to combat negative stereotypes, and provides in-depth political, economic and social analysis. To compliment this work at a structural level, we fund community-based initiatives which empower Haitians at the grassroots.
Haiti Support Group
PO Box 29623
London E9 7XU
UK
Contact: Charles Arthur
44 208 525 0456 phone
[email protected]www.haitisupport.gn.apc.org
A solidarity organization working to support Haiti's grassroots and popular sector in the UK by publishing a bi-monthly newsletter, running a regularly updated web site, briefing journalists and the public, linking with other UK organizations, and organizing meetings and cultural events. Campaigning in support of the struggle against impunity, for workers' and union rights, and for a genuine participatory democracy.
Haiti Support Network
39 West 14th Street, #206
New York, NY 10011
212-633-6646
212-633-2889 fax
[email protected]The Haiti Support Network works to raise material and political support for popular organizations and parties genuinely dedicated to Haiti's self-determination. We also work with U.S. community-based organizations in support of local struggles around such issues as police brutality and immigration rights. Activities include delegations, public forums, speaking tours and film screenings.
Haitian Apostolate, Diocese of Worcester, MA
Contact: Connie Barna
120 Hill Street
Whitinsville, MA 01588
508-234-9115
[email protected]Our organization has been ministering in les Cayes haiti for the last nine years.In 1996 the Bishop of Worcester, Most Reverend Daniel P. Reilly and the Bishop of Les Cayes, Monsignor Alix Verrier entered into a covenant of prayer and support between our two Dioceses. We have several projects of interest. They are: 1. Twinning-Parishes, and other organizations are twinned with like organizations in Haiti for the purpose of offering financial and spiritual support,and developing relationships between our two peoples. 2.Education-Through individual donations, the people of Worcester have sponsored more than 400 children for education in les Cayes. We expect to enroll 500 children for the 2000-2001 school year. Also, we have set up tutorial classes for those students needing more individual care, and have established a work/study program that assists secondary students in paying for their own schooling by working part time. 3.Medical Outreach-Several times a year, physicians and nurses volunteer to travel to Les Cayes to conduct clinics presenting various specialties, including OB/GYN, Dental, Orthopedic, Chiropractic, and Pediatrics. Also, the medical community in partnership with the community at large, donate thousands of dollars worth of Medicines and medical equipment annually. Further, when the medical situation warrents, individuals are brought to Worcester to receive medical care not readily available in Haiti. On January 31, 2000, construction was begun on a dispensary in La Savann, one of the neighborhoods of Les cayes. The cost of the clinic, $60,000 US, was donated by individuals in the Diocese of Worcester in collaboration with the Dominican Sisters of Tacoma Washington. 4. Education at home-The Apostolate provides speakers to schools, parishes, community organizations, and anyone else for the purpose of educationg American citizens as to the situation in Haiti. Through these education opportunities, we encourage people to be involved in social justice and peace issues, and to stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in les cayes. 5. Mission Opportunities-We have purchased a mission house in les Cayes, Kay Sen Pol,from which our programs are conducted and housing is provided for mission groups.We are currently developing plans to involve the local college communities in for credit courses, focusing on the culture, politics, social issues,economy, and religion of Haiti. The labs for these courses will be conducted at Kay Sen Pol. The target date for the first such course is Winter semester, 2001. 6. Other programs- We support and encourage existiing Haitian organizations such as Fonkoze, the Tourism Committe of Les cayes, Foyer St. Etienne(nursing home), and Fraternite des Jeunes de la Rue(an orphanage for boys).We collaborate with such organizations as The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Help the Aged, Food for the Poor, The Immaculate Conception Hospital of Les cayes,Beyond Borders, The Brenda Strafford Hospital,The Salesians, The Missionary Sisters of Charity, CRS, and many others.
Haitian Children's Fund, Inc.
P.O. Box 480183
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33348
(954) 467-8285
www.haitianchildren.org
Haitian Health Foundation
Contact: Marilyn Lowney
97 Sherman Street
Norwich, CT 06360 USA
860-886-4357
860-859-9887 (fax)
[email protected]www.haitianhealthfoundation.org
We are a grassroots, humanitarian organization serving 200,000 people in Jeremie and 93 mountain villages in rural southern Haiti. We provide outpatient medical, dental, and eye care, with an emphasis on child survival and maternal health.
Haitian Health Institute
91 East Concord Street, Room 200
Boston MA 02118
Contact: Jean Boisronol
617-414-7702
617-414-4676 fax
[email protected]www.HaitianHeathInstitute.com
Haitian Health Institute's priority is the development of a plan through which to improve health care and education in the Haitian Community, in part by facilitating linkage, networking, and collaborating between health, school, social services, religion and cultural agencies.
The Haitian Ministries of the Norwich Diocese
Office of Haitian Ministries
Diocese of Norwich
1595 Norwich-New London Turnpike
Uncasville, CT 06382
860-848-2237
[email protected]www.haitianministries.org
The Haitian Ministries of the Norwich Diocese is a non-profit organization with the commitment to create a permanent presence in Haiti to empower and support Haitians helping Haitians in their struggle for self-determination.
Haitian Ministry Commission
Diocese of Richmond
811 Cathedral Place
Richmond VA 23220
Contact: Cosmas Rubencamp, CFX, Executive Secretary
804-359-5661 x 221
804-358-9159 fax
[email protected]www.diocric.org/haiti
The Commission oversees the projects, events, trips to Haiti, connected with our twinning relationship with the Diocese of Hinche, Haiti.
Haitian Street Kids, Inc.
Contact: Michael W. Brewer, RN, Pres.
www.HaitianStreetKids.com
www.Restavek.org
[email protected]We are a home and advocacy organization for abandoned and abused restavek children and streetkids in Haiti. Our primary objective and goal it to advocate equal rights and demand humane treatment for the streetkids of Haiti and to rid the country of the tradition of restavek child slavery. Our home, Family Circle, is home to many of the children we work with.
Harvest for Haiti
2845 Modesto Avenue
Oakland, CA 94619
(510) 532-2760
Contact: Jeannette Diaz-Veizades, Director
[email protected]www.harvestforhaiti.org
Harvest for Haiti is a California non-profit corporation. Harvest for Haiti works with agricultural cooperatives to provide training in organic agriculture, and to partner in the building of nurseries and the creation of tool-lending libraries. Harvest for Haiti has plans to develop a compost farm in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.
Healing Hands for Haiti Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 521800
Salt Lake City, Utah 84152-1800
Contact: Susan Gleason, Director of Operations
801-954-0299 phone
801-954-0329 fax
[email protected]http://www.healinghandsforhaiti.orgHealing Hands for Haiti Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing rehabilitation medicine to Haiti. We are seeking financial support and medical volunteers to help us accomplish our goal of transferring to Haiti the technical knowledge it needs to improve the health services available to the Haitian people. Through our Rehabilitation Technician training program we are training local Haitians in basic nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and public health.
Holy Cross International Justice Office
403 Bertrand Annex
Saint Mary's
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Contact: Mary Turgi, CSC, Director
(574) 284-5366 phone
(574) 284-5596 fax
[email protected][email protected]www.holycrossjustice.org
The Holy Cross International Justice Office animates and unites the social justice work of the four Congregations of Holy Cross. Providing issue analyses, action strategies, and networking opportunities, the Office seeks to develop a well-informed, unified, public Holy Cross Voice which impacts the critical justice issues of our time. Holy Cross women and men work in Haiti as well as in 16 other countries around the world.
Holy Spirit Catholic Church /Haiti Mission
625 Airport Rd.
Huntsville, AL 35802
Contact Person Bob McCoy
256 881-4781 phone
256 881-5510 fax
[email protected]www.holyspirit.ro.com
The Haiti mission at Holy Spirit is focused to be in support of our twinning parish St. Rose de Lima in Leogane. We support the efforts of Father Sauvagere who covers approximately 60 sq.mi. and has 13 community chapels and schools that are supported primarily by lay people. Holy Spirit also supports two clinics in the area Opal in Leogane and St. Charles just south of Leogane in the mountains.
Hope International
P.O. 70037
Baltimore, MD 21237
Contact person: Don Rowley, Associate Director
443-744-0909 Phone
[email protected]www.hopeforhaiti.org
Through child sponsorship, monthly contributions, and onetime giving, Hope works to feed, educate and encourage Haiti's next generation. "Hope International, Inc. , helping Haiti to change...One child at a time"
Hopital Albert Schweitzer
1410 Magellan Drive # 101
Sarasota, FL 34243
Contact: Page Saiia, Communications Director
941-752-1525
[email protected]www.hashaiti.org
Hopital Albert Schweitzer is dedicated to improving the health care and quality of life of Haitians. Located in Deschapelles, Haiti, HAS serves 285,000 residents in its 610 sq. mile service area in the Artibonite Valley. Founded by Gwen Grant Mellon and the late Dr. Larimer Mellon, (an heir to one of America's great oil and banking fortunes) HAS has succeeded in its mission since the hospital opened its doors in 1956.
AND
Friends of Hopital Albert Schweitzer
Milwaukee Chapter
Contact: Andrew Rawson
414-429-4357
262-650-8296 (fax)
[email protected]http://www.fhash.orgFriends of Hopital Albert Schweitzer (FHASH) is a non-profit entity with the sole purpose of serving Hopital Albert Schweitzer.
Horizon de l'Espoir
Thomassin 37 A,Rte de Kenscoff
Port-au-Prince Haiti
Mailing Address: P.O.Box 13082
Delmas Port-au-Prince- Haiti
Contact: Kathelen Douyon, president
Siege Social: 25 Ruelle Carlstroem-Bois Verna
(509) 245-5348 / 402-1646
(509) 245-2039 Fax
[email protected]The Organization was created in 1999. It is a non-profit organization established in the rural area of Thomassin. Our Mission: Improve the life of the needy children and their families in Thomassin. We provide medical care, preventive health services such as child vaccination. Nutritional services, food program, education and community organizing. We also provide health education such as family planning, child nutrition and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS.
We started a new program for the "enfants en domesticity" helping them to develop their vision to transform themselves by talking about their problems and discover their own abilities. We are looking for possibilities to give them the opportunities through special education to organize in-groups, to be able to work together, to plan, manage, and solve their problem.
Hospice St. Joseph
c/o Lynx Air
P.O Box 407139
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33340
Contact: Ellen Flynn, RSM
011-509-245-6177
[email protected]-Guest house for serious visitors.
-Clinic for poor five afternoons per week.
-Hospitality for sick poor coming from mountains.
-Coordination of education funds for 140 students.
-Assistance with medical cases needing U.S. treatment.
Ignatian International Immersion Experience
1685 Carrolls Tract Rd.
Ortanna, PA 17353
Contact: Jan Sullivan Dockter
717-642-1262 phone
717-642-9262 fax
[email protected]www.iiie.info
A spiritual formation and international travel ministry of the Maryland Province of Jesuits which leads immersions trips to Haiti for adult laity.
Infinite Construction
P.O. Box 694964
Miami, FL 33269
Contact: Mr. J Jeune
305-776-0650
305-654-0650 Fax
[email protected] www.infiniteconstruction.com
Infinite Construction Group is Construction Company that works in and for Haiti. We are construction managers involved with developers, businesses, religious missions groups for construction of commercial buildings, churches, apartment buildings, land development, etc.
International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP)
Contact: Mark Gill, Envoy to the Caribbean
573-332-0623
573-332-0623 fax
[email protected]An NGO since 1973 with the United Nations, IAEWP serves to bring issues regarding education/economic development to the attention of the world. Envoy to the Caribbean (Dr. Gill) writes articles on Haiti for UNNews, the official publication of the IAEWP. This publication goes to 107 countries around the world and is used as a forum to bring attention to issues in Haiti that they would not otherwise know.
International Child Care
3620 North High Street; Suite 110
Columbus, OH 43214
Contact: Jim Hofstetter, USA National Director
1-800-722-4453
[email protected]Journey Into Freedom
4620 SW Caldew St., Unit E
Portland, OR 97219
(503) 244-4728 phone
(503) 977-9612 fax
Contact: Dale Stitt
[email protected]www.journeyintofreedom.org
Journey Into Freedom is a non-profit, ecumenical ministry which brings together people who hunger for a deeper relationship with God. For the last eight years we have been taking groups of people to Haiti on what we call Trips of Perspective. Trip participants are immersed into Haitian culture and also learn about the country's political and economic situation. We work on behalf of Haiti through educationѣhanging hearts and minds about the situation facing the Haitian people. We are also working to change the policies of the U.S. government towards Haiti.
Jubilee USA Network
222 East Capitol Street, NE
Washington, DC 20003
Contact: Marie Clarke
202-783-0215 phone
202-546-4468 fax
[email protected]www.jubileeusa.org
Jubilee USA Network is an alliance of 70 national, regional, and local faith-based and non-governmental organizations working for cancellation of the external debt of the Global South and an end to structural adjustment economic austerity programs, by building the grassroots movement for global economic justice. Jubilee is the U.S. arm of an international movement in more than 60 countries, including Haiti.
Jubilee works to fundamentally change an economic system in which the rules of trade, investment, interest rates, and exchange rates are set by rich countries and their wholly-owned institutions: the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and World Trade Organization (WTO). We work to gain a voice for the people of the Global South in the global economy, through a dialogue and relationship with the South, and by building a broad-based grassroots movement in the North strong enough to change the global status quo. We live out our mission through intensive public education, grassroots organizing, media outreach, and advocacy.
Kindred Journey Fund Inc.
500 N. Julian Street
Ebensburg, PA 15931
Contact person: Msgr. Arnold L. Gaus
(814) 472-7244 phone
(814) 472-7249 fax
[email protected]Establishment of nutritional programs.
Konbit Sante, Cap Haitien Health Partnership
395 Spring Street
Portland, ME 04102
Contacts: J. Michael Taylor, MD
Victoria Szatkowski, Project Coordinator
207-773-6050 phone
207-879-0160 fax
[email protected]www.konbitsante.org
Konbit Sante is a group of health professionals in the Greater Portland, ME area who partner with Hospital Justinian in Cap Haitien, Haiti to vring medical equipment and supplies, technical expertise and support in an effort to create a sustainable, collaborative project. All people involved are vollunteers, except the Internist, a Haitian MD, and a part-time Project Coordinator.
La Gonave Economic Help Organization (A Haiti Outreach Program)
202 South State Street #1212
Chicago Illinois 60604
Contct: Ivelyne Armand
312-431-1425
312-431-0415 fax
[email protected]La Gonave Economic Help Organization's goal is to bring relief to the people of La Gonave through additional schools, increased health care, agricultural programs and humanitarian aid.
La Troupe Makandal
621 Rutland Road #4C
Brooklyn NY 11203
Contact: Lois Wilcken
718-953-6638
212-529-1955 fax
La Troupe Makandal has joined Fanmi Ginen, a community group in the impoverished Portail Leogane zone of Port-au-Prince, in creating a cultural center that would link the folk arts with literacy. La Troupe Makandal is using its non-profit status to raise seed money for the project.
Lambi Fund of Haiti
P.O. Box 18955
Washington DC 20036
Contact: Julie Meyer
202-833-3713 or 800-606-9657 call to fax
[email protected]www.lambifund.org
The Lambi Fund's mission is to support the grassroots, democratic movement in HaitiѴhe movement that is the hope for Haiti's future. The Fund finances and provides extensive field support and training to small economic development projects. Projects are conceived and implemented by peasant, women's or community associations and are designed to generate income and become self-sustaining within 18 months.
Les Editions Paroles
12627 55th Avenue
Montreal, Qc.
Canada H1E 2L1
We are a publishing company in Montreal, Canada since 1999. We specialize in books on Haitians living in Haiti and Canada (Both Creole and French).
Marycare
Mary louise Larkin
55 King St
Danbury, CT 06811
or
Sherman Malone
85 Mechanic St.
New Haven, CT 06511
203-797-1893 phone
203-778-2079 fax
[email protected][email protected]Marycare was incorporated in New Haven, CT, and was approved by the State of CT and federal government as a not for profit organization in 1996. Marycare has established and maintains two schools: one for children in the city slum, Cite Soleil, and another in the rural fishing village of Jacquesyl on the northeast coast. Marycare assists a fisherman's and market women's cooperative and a health program providing refrigerated vaccines, childbirth kits, essential medicines and support for health professionals. Haiti Projects: Teaching fishermen boat building and motor repair; using solar energy for freezing fish for market by women's cooperative; health and nutrition program; safe birthing project; education in northeast and Cite Soleil.
Minority Development and Empowerment Inc./Haitian Community Center
470 NE 13th Street
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304
Contact: Mr. Francois Leconte, President, CEO
954-764-5101/5106
954-764-5109 fax
[email protected]MDE Inc. is actively involved in the City of Fort Lauderdale's "Sister City" program, providing resources to the city of St. Marc. MDE, Inc. will also incorporate a micro-lending program in several rural areas in the upcoming year.
Mission of Mercy
Contact: Brother de Paul, Founder/Director
P.O. Box 2256
Minneapolis, MN 55402-0256
612-529-9236, phone/fax
For 26 years, educational, medical and feeding programs. An ecumenical organization with 10 slum schools in Cite Soleil; a small trade school and malnourished infant clinic for mothers and infants who are very ill in the Balyanen area; seven buildings in Leogane in a complex for abandoned older women; feeding programs at all schools, including the La Charrue School in the Fte Nationale area. Supported by gifts of interested persons - no government or institutional church support - people helping people.
Mission Reach Out Haiti (MROH)
Southampton Full Gospel Church
PO Box 126, 130 County Rd. 39
Southampton, NY 1196907
631-283-6829
631-283-6846 Fax
[email protected]Mission Reach Out Haiti is a non-profit humanitarian organization committed to improving the quality of life for the people of Haiti.
Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
Provincial Administration
40 Avenue N
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
509-245-5654 phone
509-245-2959 fax
[email protected]The Oblates have been working in Haiti since 1942. There are currently 108 Oblates working in Haiti, the largest number by far in any single country in Latin America and the Caribbean. There are Oblates in many towns throughout Haiti. Their mission includes several parishes, a soup kitchen, ministry to needy children of Les Cayes, and several other ministries.
Multinationals Resource Center
P.O Box 19405
Washington DC 20036
Contact: Ann Leonard
202-387-8030
202-234-5176 fax
[email protected]www.essential.org/mrc
Multinationals Resource Center (MRC) and Essential Action are related organizations which work on international environments, labor, health and related issues. MRC is a free information clearinghouse for Southern activists and supports environmental groups around the world, including in Haiti. MRC recently launched an email list serve on environmental issues in Haiti.
National Coalition for Haitian Rights
275 Seventh Avenue, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Executive Director, Jocelyn McCalla
212 337 0005 phone
http://www.nchr.org[email protected]and
NCHR - Projet "Restavek se timoun tou"
23, 3eme rue du Travail
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
509 244-3574
[email protected]New York Institute for Haiti Advocacy, Inc.
P.O. Box 206
New York, NY 10025
Contact: Dr. Steve Coupeau, President
[email protected]http://www.nyiha.orgNew York Institute for Haiti Advocacy, Inc. is a not-for-profit institution committed to advocacy for the rights and dignity of new citizens and immigrant New Yorkers. It acts as an authoritative independent voice for international human rights and international justice. The New York Institute for Haiti Advocacy, Inc. gives voice to the concerns and aspirations of Haitian-Americans and new citizens.
North Haiti Mission
268 Reef Run Road
Pawleys Island, SC 29585
Contact person: Clint Goddard
843-235-2883 phone
[email protected]www.northhaitimission.org
NHM is a 501 C3 Non Profit Org.
North Haiti Mission is a religious organization and is committed to community development and Bible-based spiritual training in Northern Haiti. The corporation will work in Haiti to promote medical care, feeding programs, education, agricultural help, and evangelization of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
North Haiti Mission is located in Caesse, a village 3 miles south of Tru-Du-Nord.
Nouvel Jou
Rue 17 I#40
Cap Haitian
Haiti
Contact: Jenny A. Etienne
904-778-1374 phone/fax
[email protected]www.nouveljou.com
The mission of Nouvel Jou is to organize Haitian people throughout the world, to establish Haiti socially and economically, and to improve on the existing infrastructure. Nouvel Jou is dedicated to raising the consciences of the people of Haiti through education, knowledge, and technology. By working together through the hard work and effort of all Haitians worldwide, our Haiti will again be known as "The Pearl of the Islands."
OMI Justice and Peace/Integrity of Creation Office
391 Michigan Ave. NE
Washington, DC 20012
Contact: Seamus Finn, OMI, or Rebecca Phares
202-281-1608 phone
202-636-9444 fax
[email protected] or
[email protected]www.omiusa.org/JPIC2002/jpic.htm
The OMI Justice and Peace/Integrity of Creation Office coordinates the advocacy efforts of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate on behalf of the interests of the poor and abandoned in the U.S. and in the more than 65 countries where the Oblates are in mission. This certainly includes Haiti, as there are more than 100 Oblates in Haiti.
Operation Green Leaves
Contact: Nadine Patrice
www.oglhaiti.com
Operation Green Leaves is a non-profit organization whose mission is the Environmental Education of the Global Haitian Community and the Reforestation of the Republic of Haiti.
Ores Jozef Publications
P.O. Box 519
Randolph MA 02368
Contact: Ores Jozef
781-961-9619
781-961-9619 fax
[email protected]Publishes & distributes school materials, offers translations of documents in French/Creole/English.
Orthodox Church
Contact: Father Michael Graves
PO Box 407139 (LYNXAIR)
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33340
Address in Haiti:
Maison Orthodoxe
Morne Calvaire #27
BP 15270, Petion-Ville
(509) 257-4805 (in Haiti)
(509) 257-0672 (Fax)
[email protected]THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN HAITI was established in 1987 and has its center in Petion-Ville. Archimandrite Michael Graves from New Jersey is the Vicar-General of The Church in the Caribbean. Father John Leonidas (Haitien) is the pastor of St. George's Church and Father John Cadet is the deacon. Father John Bellezza of Southampton, NJ is the liaison for the work in Haiti and handles contributions, and may be contacted at (609) 859-4420 or by e-mail at
[email protected].
THE ORTHODOX CHURCH in Haiti operates one primary school (St. George's in Petion-Ville with over 700 children) and sponsors ten secondary school students in other schools. The Church also presently sponsors two young persons who are in Philo studies. In addition to the schools, The Church operates two free medical clinics (Mayotte and Leogane) and supports two orphanages (Holy Angels in Petion-Ville and another under construction in Cyvadier. The Church also has a youth hostel in Petion-Ville; a feeding program; several cottage industries (floor mops, candles, Mexican tortillas, greeting cards, icons and other art), and a ministry for street children.
Pan African Children's Fund
411 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02124
Contact: Diana Aubourg
PHONE
617-822-1832 fax
[email protected]The Pan African Children's Fund mobilizes financial resources among predominately U.S. black churches to support projects working with AIDS-affected and vulnerable children in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean.
PAPDA, Platfom Ayisyen Pledwaye pou yon Devlopman Altenatif
# 7, Rue Riviere
Port-au-Prince Haiti (W.I.)
Contact: Camille Chalmers
(509) 244-4727 Telephone and Fax
(509) 245-6071 / (509) 245-9514 Home phone
(509) 402-3702 Mobile phone
E-mail PAPDA:
[email protected] /
[email protected][email protected] or
[email protected]www.rehred-haiti.net/membres/papda
The PAPDA is a coalition of grassroots organizations, non-governmental organizations, socio-professional associations and popular education networks that formed in 1995. It is a coordinated advocacy platform for Haiti's strategy of economic development.
Parish Twinning Program of the Americas (PTPA)
208 Leake Avenue
Nashville Tennessee 37205
Contact: Theresa Patterson, Executive Director
615-356-5999
615-352-5114 fax
[email protected]The Mission of the PTPA is to develop and maintain linkages of individuals and parishes in North America with parishes and projects in Haiti, Latin America and Central America. We facilitate communications, visits to Haiti, promote relationships between the "twins" and
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