HAITI: One Year Report

ONE-YEAR REPORT: SEE HOW YOUR SOLIDARITY IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN HAITI!

A few numbers:

• DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE receieved $20 million from the Canadian public for reconstruction in Haiti.
• $1 million came from schools and student fundraising. 
• DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE has been present in Haiti for over 40 years.
• With the Caritas Internationalis network, DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE  provided humanitarian assistance (food, water, tents, mobile clinics) to more than 2.3 million Haitian men and women, in the first 6 months.
• So far, DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE has spent $5 million on emergency and reconstruction projects with its 25 partners in Haiti and has committed an additional $10 million for the next three years.

Our reconstruction program with some concrete examples:

Support to our civil society partners so they can re-establish their activities:

DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE has helped its partners restart their activities by financing a solidarity fund that has enabled staff to get back to work and is also providing financial aid for rebuilding their offices and replacing essential equipment.

Reconstruction of houses in areas directly affected by the earthquake:

DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE, in partnership with Caritas Switzerland, is supporting local group Iteca in their program to rebuild 1,700 permanent houses in Gressier using local materials.

Getting children back in school:

DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE is helping children directly affected by the earthquake to return to school by financing school canteens, purchasing equipment and subsidizing teachers’ salaries;

DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE is collaborating with CECI in rebuilding a primary school for 850 students that is operated by the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.

Promoting the special needs and interests of women:

DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE is supporting women’s organizations that are taking action on the issue of protecting women and children in the IDP camps – security patrols in the camps, raising awareness about violence against women, supporting victims of violence – and are promoting the rights of women in Jacmel and Port-au-Prince.

Promoting food security, with a focus on food sovereignty through ecological and responsible agriculture in response to environmental degradation in the country:

With the support of DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE, the Papaye Peasants’ Movement (MPP):  

• Has distributed seeds to more than 20,500 farming families affected by the earthquake;
• Is implementing a major three-year program to strengthen the food security of farmers in the Central Plateau.

Monitoring human rights in the post-earthquake context:

The National Human Rights Defence Network (RNDDH) works on defending, promoting and protecting human rights in post-earthquake Haiti; it also promotes a state of law, has participated in election monitoring, etc.

Strengthening communications in order to ensure that the viewpoint of civil society is known to the public and to better inform communities about reconstruction and disaster-prevention issues:

DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE supports two community radio associations in the country. REFRAKA, which produces women-oriented programming, and SAKS are both creating content adapted to the post-quake context for broadcast on member community radio stations across the country. They also offer their members technical training and journalism courses.

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