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FONKOZE
Espwa Bel Viv
Hope for a Better Life in Haiti
We at Indigo are pleased to support Fonkoze, a three year old organization devoted to promoting development from the grassroots up in Haiti. At a time when so much of the news from Haiti is discouraging, Fonkoze is making solid progress in improving the lives of many Haitians. Fonkoze provides support to farmers, Ti Machann street vendors and small entrepreneurs with micro-credit loans, secure local banking, training in literacy and business skills and other programs.
"Here at Fonkoze, we believe that economic democracy can be an avenue to true political democracy, especially when development comes from the base, and encompasses broad grassroots participation." Father Joseph Phillippe - Coordinator, Fonkoze
To learn more about Fonkoze visit their web-site: www.fonkoze.org
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Art Creation Foundation for Children
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.
To learn more about the Art Creation Foundation for Children visit their web-site: http://www.artforhaitianchildren.org/
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Haiti Support Network
The Haiti Support Group (HSG) is an association of individuals who support the Haitian people in their struggle for justice, human rights, and participatory democracy. It is a solidarity group based in the United Kingdom. The HSG was launched in June 1992 in the aftermath of the military coup d'etat that overthrew the democratic government.
To learn more about the Haiti support Network visit their web-site: www.gn.apc.org/haitisupport.htm
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National Coalition for Haitian Rights
Established as the National Coalition for Haitian Refugees in 1982 by a coalition of 42 U.S. and Haitian religious, labor and human rights organizations, NCHR aimed to assure that Haitian asylum applicants receive fair hearings in the United States and educate the U.S. public about the political and economic causes of the Haitians' flight from their homeland.
In 1995, armed with a new agenda and a new name, NCHR initiated a new programmatic division for helping increase the political effectiveness of the Haitian-American community, so that this community at the margins of power and recognition might soon begin to enjoy more fully the benefits of participating in U.S. democracy.
In the United States, NCHR has pioneered in national litigation, education and advocacy efforts designed to halt the deportation and secure the legal status of Haitian boat people. The Coalition's efforts over several years were instrumental in gaining passage of reforms in U.S. immigration law in 1986 enabling more than 40,000 Haitians to attain legal residency. As a plaintiff in a landmark case against the Department of Justice, NCHR helped secure parole into the U.S. for nearly three hundred Haitian asylum-seekers who had been quarantined for as long as twenty months at the U.S. naval station at Guant‡namo Bay, Cuba. This legal effort led ultimately to the closing of what was probably the world's first prison camp for HIV-positive refugees.
NCHR has also assumed international leadership in organizing support for human rights in Haiti. Over the last ten years, NCHR staff members have conducted numerous investigative missions to Haiti and published more than thirty reports on the status of human rights there. Together with Americas Watch, NCHR set up a three-month long Election Watch in 1987 to monitor what were meant to be Haiti's first free elections, and which instead ended in an army bloodbath. We followed with a parallel month-long monitoring of the successful democratic elections in December 1990. We established in 1992 a permanent NCHR office in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, for promoting human rights and democratic reforms.
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Partners in Health/Zanmi Lasante
This is the non-profit organization founded in Haiti in 1987 by Dr. Paul Farmer, which is chroniucled in Tracy Kidder's fascinating book Mountains Beyond Mountains . Read the book! Today PIH is doing effective work in Health, particularly in AIDS and Tuberculosis, not only in Haiti but in Peru, Russia ad around the world.
Our Mission...
is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, Partners In Health strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair. We draw on the resources of the world’s elite medical and academic institutions and on the lived experience of the world’s poorest and sickest communities. At its root, our mission is both medical and moral. It is based on solidarity, rather than charity alone. When our patients are ill and have no access to care, our team of health professionals, scholars, and activists will do whatever it takes to make them well—just as we would do if a member of our own families—or we ourselves—were ill.
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Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou
The Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou exhibition, hosted by the American Museum of Natural History from October 1998 until January 1999, explored the arts and culture of the Afro-Caribbean religion of Vodou. More than 500 objects—from sequined flags to medicine packets—were featured. Also highlighted were prototypes of several altars, each honoring different religious deities.
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Haitian Art Society
The association was formed in 2003 to strengthen and expand interest in and understanding of Haitian Art and Artists.
Our website provides information about the HAS and our events and also about other Haitian art events. We provide links to other sites about Haitian art and culture.
We have an HAS Members Community BulletinBoard for posting events or news relevant to Haitian art and culture.
There are regional chapters of the HAS located in Washington, D.C. and in New York City.
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