YOUR HELP IS STILL NEEDED

PLEASE MAKE A DONATION to a

Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund

TODAY:

Grassroots Organizations (Haitian or collaborative North/South Ventures):

Institute for Policy Study (IPS/Other Worlds) works collaboratively with Haitian Peasant & women’s groups (such as KOFAVIV) to assure Haitians with just alternatives for their futures; funds can be designated for specific projects.  See their website for further information:

http://www.otherworldsarepossible.org/support-other-worlds

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/

GOALS/Haiti works with youth participants and operates with American partners in Léogane:

http://goalshaiti.org/team/

Ayiti Resurrect works with Haitian artists, community builders, mental health specialists, and holistic healers to address the psychological and spiritual healing of earthquake survivors.  They seek funding to provide a second round of healing workshops in Haiti this fall and to leave sustainable infrastructures for their partners in Haiti: http://www.ayitiresurrect.org/

Mid-Size & Large NGOS doing good work:

Education Related:

Université de Montréal, Ecole de Service Social (School of Social Work), seeks donations for 10-12 Haitian students taken into the program post-earthquake who want to work in social work in Haiti; all have past there first year exams but are need of funding to complete their studies, or face return to Haiti without completion of their degrees.  Visit the University’s site (in French); the “gift” button is located at the bottom of the left menu (“Faire un don”):

http://www.esersoc.umontreal.ca/

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.  The link to their earthquake relief fund can be found here: http://us.internationalchildcare.org/node/313

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 earthquake amputees:

http://www.handicap-international.us/where-we-work/programs/?dechi_programmes%5Bselpays%5D=72&cHash=2ab3adb76b

Doctors without Borders

http://doctorswithoutborders.org/donate/?ref=main-menu

Partners In Health / Location Boston, MA

http://www.pih.org

OxFam

http://www.oxfam.org/