We’re raising $20,000 to help 2,000 Haitian families regain self-sufficiency via GlobalGiving, the premier crowdfunding platform for organizations around the world ( we’ve already raised $80,000 from Haiti and international sources!) The campaign ends on March 30. Please donate now and share with your network. Donate $25 Monthly In Creole, we say “Men anpil, chaj pa […]
Leve Kanpe means getting up and standing up tall… getting back on your feet! Support Pwojé Leve Kanpe & give vulnerable Haitians hope for the future Roof +Farm Animals + Replanted Gardens = Hope for the future (end of hunger/children’s malnutrition & a path to self-sufficiency!) Since Hurricane Matthew devastated Haiti in 2016, ESPWA & […]
We don’t believe in charity We believe in development. We don’t work FOR the community. We work WITH the community Têt ansanm, heads together, always têt ansanm We bring our communities together Transcending barriers of race, color, class, gender and politics. We bring our communities together, To make each of us and all of […]
Early in October 2016, Hurricane Matthew, the first Category 4 Hurricane to impact Haiti in over 50 years ravaged the Southern Region of Haiti which includes the Grand’Anse. The Grand’Anse, the Pilot Region of ESPWA’s Haiti Community Foundation Initiative was the hardest hit. Over 80% of housing and 95% of the schools were destroyed along […]
From October 2012 to July 2013, The Committee of our Pilot Region in the Grande Anse in Haiti conducted a Regional Planning Process. Hundreds of community leaders from civil society, business, government and religious sector participated in the planning process of the Region’s 12 communes. The Grande Anse is Haiti’s very much endangered last green […]
“My visit to Kenya also made a difference for me in how I feel as a person. I felt so connected; our human experience and roots being so similar, we could identify to all the issues at stake. I was also inspired by the refreshing level of humanity and strength of many of the people we met. In a world in which trends are often governed by superficial matters, we need such contacts in our fight for the prevalence of equity en justice. Being in Kenya was like being continuously watered in fountain of inspirational individual and collective stories.” — Caroline Hudicourt, HCFI Steering Committee Member
The Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF) spoke to Marie-Rose Romain Murphy, director of ESPWA, about efforts to establish a community foundation initiative in Haiti. Here is a sneak preview of the interview. For the complete article, please visit: www.globalfundcommunityfoundations.org Q. The Haiti Community Foundation Initiative has been gathering steam over the past 12 months. […]
Practitioners from Kenya, Mexico and Brazil share their experience.
Conversations about the creation of a community foundation in Haiti have been ongoing over the last year or so as part of a process initiated by Espwa and the Puerto Rico Community Foundation and supported by the GFCF, the Kellogg Foundation and the Inter-American Foundation. An initial workshop to discuss the idea was held in Haiti last year which brought together an initial group of community and business leaders, diaspora and funders.
“How can we get long term reconstruction and development that is Haitian-led and owned?” This was the topic of a two-day meeting held on Haiti’s Arcahaie Coast in late July 2011 which brought together a diverse cross-section of Haitians from civil society organizations, business institutions, members of the Haitian Diaspora and representatives of international foundations.
