It only takes one trip to Haiti to realize
that this nation is in need of a helping hand. Poverty, illiteracy,
the lack of adequate medical care, housing, food, clean water...the
list goes on. We offer here a list of organizations that are
providing grassroots help to the people of Haiti. Each of
these organizations provide much needed services to the people
of Haiti and can use your support.
The mission of the Haitian Health Foundation is to improve the health and well being of the poor, sick, and the infirm of the greater Jérémie area, with a focus on women and children. This is accomplished through:
A Secondary Care Outpatient Clinic
A Public Health outreach program
Nutritional Rehabilitation services
Safe motherhood services
Community Development programs
Self-help programs, which advance family community self-sufficiency
Responding to emergencies and crises with humanitarian relief, andPrograms to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and expertise between Haitians and the international community.
FOKAL, the Soros Foundation in Haiti, has been in operation
for more than a decade.
In 2006, Mr. George Soros mandated that we try to diversify
our source of funding and partners, and hence, we created
Friends of FOKAL.
We are happy to announce that the website for Friends of
FOKAL is fully operational, allowing us to accept contributions
online in support of the wonderful work that FOKAL is doing
in Haiti.
We urge you to visit the site at www.fokal-usa.org
and to share it with friends and associates who may have a
soft spot for Haiti.
To Promote the structures necessary to
establish a just and durable democratic society, based on
individual and collective autonomy and responsibility
To Support the autonomy of individuals,
critical spirit, clear judgment, sense of responsibility,
initiative, creativity and free cooperation through education,
training and communication
To Reinforce the organizational processes
which promote within groups the power of discrimination,
the acquiring, sharing and comparing of knowledge and know-how
necessary for an active participation in the democratic
administration of public affairs and the flourishing of
social, cultural and community life
FOKAL has chosen to support those sectors of
the society most likely to bring about social change -- principally
children and youths, including youth associations (involved
in media, cultural, and environmental activities) -- and sectors
of the society that have historically been marginalized such
as the peasants and women.
In 1985, Michael Geilenfeld, a former Brother
with Mother Theresa’s Brothers of Charity, started a
small home for five boys to bring them off the streets and
offer them a Christian family life. Twenty years later there
are now three homes serving more than 60 children. Graduates
from the first home, St. Joseph’s Home for Boys, run
a home for disabled children called Wings of Hope outside
Port-au-Prince and a home for young boys called Trinity House
in a small coastal town.
Hearts with Haiti provides financial assistance
to the children and young adults of St. Joseph’s in
Port-au-Prince, Wings of Hope in Fermathe, and Trinity House
in Jacmel through donations and fundraising activities. Hearts
with Haiti tries to match expertise of individuals with needs
at the homes to provide opportunities for the children in
areas such as the arts and academics and with medical and
therapeutic needs.
Because the leadership of the homes and the
boys themselves believe in giving back in gratitude for having
been brought off the streets, there are now 94 children from
a nearby slum who attend school, thanks to the boys who have
voiced the needs of the neglected children (just as they once
were) and found sponsors from the U.S. and Canada to help.
Every dollar that goes to St. Joseph’s
Wings of Hope grows like loaves and fishes. “Our desire
is to become extensions of God’s merciful love and uplifting
joy,” says Michael Geilenfeld. “We want our lives
to contribute to the dissolution of the miseries of the world.
The children at St. Joseph’s, Wings of Hope and Trinity
House have sprouted wings of self-esteem and are soaring on
the wind of the opportunities being brought to them. Their
past was misery. Their future contains abundant promise.”
To send donation:
Hearts with Haiti
708 McCulloch Street
Raleigh, NC 27603
Art Creation Foundation for Children is a non-profit
arts organization created for education and personal growth
of children in need in Jacmel, Haiti.
We are a grassroots project with realistic goals.
We can not change the world.
We CAN, however, change the lives of the children we serve.
Nothing is easy in Haiti.
It is hard work to make our foundation a reality.
Despite the poverty and current instability, we are strong
and intact.
WE, unlike the rest of the world have not given up on Haiti.
We still have HOPE!
Please have HOPE with us!
In
an impossible situation ...
... Friends of the Children of Haiti works impossible miracles.
Friends
of the Children of Haiti is a bold, all-volunteer,
non-profit organization whose medical missions bring healing
and hope to thousands of Haitians each year. Moreover, Friends
of the Children of Haiti has pulled off a rarity: In a country
that disdains and discourages foreign ownership of land, the
organization has built its own clinic facility, which stands
ready to serve Haitians year-round.
Hôpital
Albert Schweitzer - Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS)
is an integrated system of health care that provides hospital
treatment and public health and development programs for
the 278,000 impoverished people of the Artibonite Valley
in Haiti. HAS relies on monetary help from its "partner
organizations" for approximately 50% of the annual operating
budget and is staffed by both Haitian and visiting medical
professionals.
The
Friends of Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, Haiti, seek
to expand awareness in North America of the culture and
art of the Haitian people, and of their needs for health
services and economic development. Through this expanded
awareness and concern, the Friends facilitate support for
Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in order to assist the people
of Haiti’s Artibonite Valley in improving their health
and well-being.
People
to People - Currently funding about 30 small rural
community projects.. Most of PTP's projects are loans to
help community organizations start up small businesses which
will benefit both the community and the community organization.
Child
Care International - Child Care International works
closely with lay and religious missionaries and local communities
in an effort to provide care for the many children caught
in the dehumanizing grip of extreme poverty.
Liberation Through Education - This
organization was founded by a Rhode Island school teacher
who believes that "education can be a revolutionary
tool to to free people from the economic chains that keep
them captive." One of their first projects was developed
in cooperation with a Haitian priest in the town of La Vallee.
The children of La Vallee have to walk 5-6 miles over mountain
roads to attend school. Their goal is to build 4 mini-schools
(grades 1-3) over a period of 4 years. For additional information
please contact:
Liberation through Education
1 Chestnut Street #817
Providence, RI 02903
Guy Azza, Treasurer
(401) 453-5017
Succour Foundation - Haiti Missionary
Support Group, has been traveling to Haiti since 1996. This
organization has built six churches, sponsored medical clinics
in Haiti,- taking doctors, nurses, medication and humanitarian
supplies to Haiti along with other professionals and lay
persons. Currently, they sponsor an orphanage, "Ambassadors
of Jesus Children's, which provides a home for approximately
65 orphan children.
They are an official non-profit organization
here in the USA under the name of Succour Foundation. Succour
means "Helps." If you want to help them, contact
Patricia Gradney,
business coordinator
Wings
of Hope
Child
Care International