Haiti Relief Funds and Donations
If you are not aware or don’t remember what happened to aid after the 1/12/2010 earthquake, please seek out Raoul Peck’s documentary, Fatal Assistance/Assistance Mortelle. It makes the situation then and now crystal clear. **Please research before donating.**
Haitian-led organizations/businesses
(Canada)
CIDIHCA
Le Centre Toussaint
La Maison d’Haiti
Caribbean archive
Jardins Lakou
NSK Canada
Environnement Intersectionel (ECI)
(United States )
Haitian Heritage Museum
Haiti Cultural exchange
Haitian cultural arts alliance
Woy Magazine
(Haiti)
Marijan Ayiti
Fondation Amis des Pauvres
List below was compiled by Haitian-Canadian/American author , Myriam J. Chancy. (find the full list here): https://myriamchancy.com/haitirelieffunds/
Earthquake relief:
Ayiti Community Trust, recommended by Chris Low of Matenwa.org, and created by Haitian-Americans out of Miami, has set up a fund to serve communities affected by the August 14th, 2021 earthquake; you can find the link and more about them here:
https://www.classy.org/campaign/earthquake-relief-fund/c352932
COFHED (in Camp Perrin)
Hope for Haiti (in Les Cayes)
Locally Haiti (in Petit Trou de Nippes)
PRODEV (network of schools in south and Grand Anse)
FONKOZE
Friends of Paradis des Indiens in Abricots, Grand Anse
Quixote Center
https://www.quixote.org/haiti-reborn/
Community Coalition for Haiti (Currently sending medical supplies, pharma and Haitian medical professionals to support three hospitals in Les Cayes.) :
FOKAL
Ayiti Community Trust
https://ayiticommunitytrust.org/
Geared towards Education:
“Fleur de Vie” https://www.fleurdevieonline.org/ led by fashion designer Dayanne Danier
Project St. Anne: https://projectstanne.org/ founded by Naika Charles D’Haiti
Matenwa.org – Many in LaGonav, the off-coast island at the mouth of the bay of Port-au-Prince, have family in the Southwest region of Haiti on the mainland and housing will be critical in the next days and week; they will be setting up a fund to assist those who have lost their housing with ties to LaGonav to rebuild or find housing. You can donate directly through their website:
Grassroots Organizations (Haitian or collaborative North/South Ventures):
Ecole Bazilo, Carrefour-Feuille, Port-au-Prince
Carrefour-Feuille is an area to the east of Port-Prince running from the sea-side into the mountains; the mountain areas were devastated by the earthquake of 2010. The Bazilo School is run by musician educators, Louis Lesly Marcelin (aka Sanba Zao) and Mireille Marcelin, to provide elementary education to local children as well as at least one meal a day; the school hires local schoolteachers as well. Donations can be made by Western Union Transfer. For more information, contact: Louis Lesly Marcelin at sanbazao54@yahoo.fr
Fosaj/Jacmel Arts Center is, as they write on their webpage: “an inclusive space for all creative minds to express themselves and collaborate together to share more beautiful and powerful stories from their culture.” The artists run workshops in the arts, including dance and drum, but also focusing on visual and plastic arts, such as the papier maché tradition for which Jacmel is so well known. To support their work, go to: https://jacmelartscenter.wordpress.com
Atis Fanm Matenwa is a women’s artists collective located in a remote village in the interior of LaGonav island off the coast of Haiti; they seek funds to re-build their homes and to continue the art work that sustains their community:
http://www.artmatenwa.org/
Zanmi Lakay is an organization focused on assisting homeless and formerly homeless Haitian children attain an education and direction in life; a major project of ZL has been photography workshops and training, based in Jacmel, in Southern Haiti. Summer photography camps allow Haitian children and youth to document their own lives, as well as gain valuable training in a trade as photographers. The resulting photography is exhibited and sold locally as well as in the US. Children can also be sponsored to attend local schools. See the following website for more information, and to view the photography:
www.zanmilakay.org
Mid & Large NGOS :
Institute for Justice & Democray in Haiti (IJDH), is a Boston-based legal advocacy NGO with offices in Haiti (under the name, Bureau des Avocats Internationaux). As they write on their website, they are: “a partnership of Haitian and US human rights advocates, supporting the Haitian people in their grassroots struggle for a just system of law, a society without violence, social justice, and a democratic government.” Visit them at the following website to learn more about their legal campaigns and other initiatives: http://www.ijdh.org
KANPE, a francophone organization based in Montreal and founded by singer Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire & Dominique Anglade, who lost her well-known parents in the quake, focuses on various causes: economic independence, nutrition, sustainable agriculture, secure housing. Associated with Paul Farmer’s Fanmi Lasante & FONKOZE (site is in French & English): http://www.kanpe.org/
CECI(Centre d’étude et de coopération internationale) is a French-Canadian org operating in Haiti since 1971 on various aspects of development):
http://www.ceci.ca/fr/regions/haiti/
COHEF (Children of Haiti Enhancement Foundation, Inc.) works to provide schooling to disadvantaged children in rural areas. Motto: Independence through education. See:
http://www.cohef.org
International Child Care works primarily with children in Haiti & the DR. http://www.internationalchildcare.org/give
Handicap International “is an independent and impartial aid organization working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster,” around the world; their work in Haiti is aimed primarily at assisting injured earthquake survivors, including amputees: https://www.hi-us.org
EqualHealth is a global community of health professionals, educators, and activists dedicated to the fight for health equity which transcends borders. Equal Health works in various parts of Africa and also in Haiti. Funds can be directed to various parts of their movement, including their campaign against racism (see: http://www.equalhealth.org/campaign-against-racism)
http://www.equalhealth.org/donate
Doctors without Borders
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/donate/?ref=main-menu
FOKAL, based in Port-au-Prince, has partnered with their US 501C3, “Ayiti Demen” to collect funds to be distributed to 20+ grassroots organizations in the Southern peninsula of Haiti. You can read their entire action plan, and donate here:
https://ademen.org/fokal-haiti-relief-fund/
FOKAL’s complete website can be found here: https://fokal.org
Ayiti Air Anbilans is the only completely nonforprofit local air ambulance in Haiti.Many hospitals and clinics locally have fallen or are not fully staffed, leading to the need for costly evacuations. ; they are also working with Zanmi Lasante (listed below). To donate, go here:
https://www.haitiairambulance.org/donate/
St. Boniface is the largest hospital serving the southern peninsula . They have been recommended by many in the health field as a sound organization to support as they work to assist the most affected in the area. You can read their action plan and donate here:
https://healthequityintl.org/our-work/2021-earthquake-response
Zanmi Lasante, aka Partners in Health, founded by Paul Farmer, is a trusted health organization working throughout Haiti to provide low cost health care:
Fosaj/Jacmel Arts Center is, as they write on their webpage: “an inclusive space for all creative minds to express themselves and collaborate together to share more beautiful and powerful stories from their culture.” The artists run workshops in the arts, including dance and drum, but also focusing on visual and plastic arts, such as the papier maché tradition for which Jacmel is so well known.
To support their work, go to: https://jacmelartscenter.wordpress.com