Web Links

Read a promotion flyer that describes the work of this vital media reporting project in Haiti. Haiti Grassroots Watch/Ayiti Kale Je works with researchers and university students in Haiti to make it possible for them to write and tell the story of their country. Read the flyer here.

Here is a four-minute video from 2013 explaining the work of Haiti Grassroots Watch.

Excellent daily news agency, with articles web-translated into English.

Haiti's largest-distribution weekly newspaper, printed in Brooklyn, New York with editorial offices in Brooklyn and Port au Prince. Most content is in French language, with pages in Kreyol and English each week. E-mail subscription is $20 U.S., see link for print subscription price.

Weekly, one hour radio program on WBAI (New York), Pacifica Network. Thursdays, 9 pm Eastern. Follow link to live broadcast or podcast.

The blog of independent journalist Ansel Herz who reported from Port-au-Prince from 2009 to end 2011.

A blog by Dr. John Carroll currently working at the Cholera Treatment Center at Hopital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles, written for the Peoria Journal Star.

Rabble.ca is a web news magazine widely read in Canada by social justice activists, trade unionists, political leaders and many others. The Haiti "issues" page on Rabble is maintained in part by editors of the Canada Haiti Action Network.

A collective of authors, activists, scholars, and workers based in several countries and dedicated to documenting news, views, and analysis with Haiti's grassroots popular democracy movement.

This blog, by author Kevin Edmonds, provides a critical analysis of the problems and possibilities for progressive political and social change throughout the Caribbean. The author grew up in St. Lucia and is currently a graduate student at the University of Toronto.
 

Réseau alternatif haïtien d'information.
Kreyol, français, anglais, espagnol.
French, Kreyol, English, Spanish.
 

The Toronto Haiti Action Committee (THAC) is committed to raising awareness about Canada's role in the 2004 overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Website of the Haiti Action Committee of San Francisco Bay Area.
 

The Haiti Support Group is active in Britain and Europe in advocating for sovereignty and social justice for Haiti. Go to its very informative website to learn more and to subscribe to its mail list and bulletin, "Haiti Briefing." The latest isue of the bulletin is attached here.

Let Haiti Live is a comprehensive program for Haiti working to strengthen the independence and self-determination of the Haitian people in all areas of life.

Let Haiti Live mobilizes Haitians through popular education, alternative media, and food security projects; strengthens the capacity of existing organizations that share our philosophy of empowering Haitian leadership and vision; and supports Haitian-led solutions to some of the country’s most pressing issues, with a specific focus on environmental stewardship and rural development.

Just Foreign Policy is an independent and non-partisan membership organization dedicated to reforming U.S. foreign policy by mobilizing and organizing the broad majority of Americans who want a foreign policy based on diplomacy, law and cooperation.

The Zanmi Lasante/Partners In Health medical center is located in the Central Plateau of Haiti and delivers health care to a population of one million people through a network of clinics in that region of the country. Since the January 12, 2010 earthquake, PIH has expanded its work into the earthquake zone. As of January 2011, it is providing health care to three internally displaced persons camps housing app. 80,000 people.

Doctors Without Borders operates clinics in Port au Prince and surrounding neighbourhoods. It has expertise in disaster relief. Donations in Canada and the U.S. are tax deductible.
By mail in Canada: Doctors Without Borders; 402 – 720 Spadina Avenue; Toronto, ON M5S 2T9

Sawatzky Family Foundation-SOPUDEP School

SOPUDEP is a pioneering school in Petionville with an enrolment of 600 students from elementary to senior high school grades. The school has survived the earthquake and we understand there were no casualties inside. Staff are transforming it into a disaster medical center and will urgently need funds. The Sawatzky Family Foundation is a registered charity in Canada and issues tax deductible receipts.
By mail: The Sawatzky Family Foundation; PO Box 626, 25 Peter Street North; Orillia, Ontario, Canada L3V 6K5

In association with the Haiti Action Committee in San Francisco/Bay Area, this fund delivers resources directly to grassroots organizations in Haiti. It was founded following the 2004 coup d’etat that forced the elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, from office and imposed a two-year regime of human rights violations whose consequence continues today.
By mail: Haiti Emergency Relief Fund; c/o 2362 Bancroft Way; Berkeley CA 94704.
By phone: Walter Riley, attorney, SBN 95919, Chairperson of Haiti Emergency Relief Fund, phone 510 451 1422.
By e-mail: herf1804@hotmail.com.

Donations to Cuban Medical Brigades, which were already active in Haiti before the earthquake, and which train Haitian doctors to work in Haiti, can be made through:

Make cheques out to “The Mackenzie-Papineau Memorial Fund” and mail to: Attention: S. Skup; 56 Riverwood Terrace; Bolton, ON L7E 1S4

ReliefWeb provides humanitarian information and analysis.

A source of news and information on public health issues in Haiti, including cholera treatment and prevention.

This is the new (2013), umbrella web page by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations.

http://haiti.humanitarianresponse.info/

Nouvelles d'Haiti, avec traductions vers l'anglais. http://www.ahphaiti.org/ndujour.html.

L'hébdomadaire le plus diffusé en Haïti. Ses bureaux de rédaction sont à Brooklyn et à Port au Prince.

Ayiti Kale Je se yon partenarya de (2) òganizasyon, Groupe Medialternatif/Alterpresse ak Society for the Animation of Social Communication (SAKS), ansanm avèk etidyan nan Fakilte Syans Imèn nan Inivèsite deta Dayiti, ansanm avèk manm de (2) rezo – Rezo Fanm Radyo Kominotè Ayisyen (REFRAKA) ak Asosyasyon Medya Kominotè Ayisyen (AMEKA), ki genyen kòm manm radyo kominotè atravè peyi a.

Mars 2012

Le Nouvelliste est le quotidien le plus diffusé en Haïti.

Réseau alternatif haïtien d'information.
Kreyol, français, anglais, espagnol.
French, Kreyol, English, Spanish.