LINKS TO HAITIAN WEBSITES
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The number one source for information about Haiti |
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The Largest and most prestigious Haitian weekly - founded in 1983. |
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The Internet Information Port dedicated to Haiti and the Haitian people. |
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Windows on Haiti was designed to facilitate a positive learning of Haitian culture for students of all ages. To study Haiti is to gain a remarkable insight into the nature of Man. The objective is to facilitate this task by offering some interesting Windows on the culture of Haiti. Includes sections on art, business, cuisine, history, life and opinion. Contains list of links and current thought in the Haitian literary and progressive political community. |
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Project Teach/Konbit Pwof offers two-week professional development seminars for Haitian teachers. The courses are taught by experienced teacher volunteers from the U.S., Canada, and Europe. They cover lesson planning and delivery, evaluation, classroom management, and teaching methodology, with a special emphasis on children's rights. Courses take place in mid-July, each year in a new location. Konbit Pwof 2001 will be held in Jacmel, July 6-20. |
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Since 1995, at the request of Haitian community organizations, PBIs development of peace education curricula in Creole, scores of Haitian activists from dozens of popular organizations have taken on co-facilitation of these dynamic collaborative workshops. One day the project hopes to replace its volunteers with Haitian peace educators. |
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Operation Green Leaves is a non-profit organization whose mission is the Environmental Education of the Global Haitian Community and the Reforestation of the Republic of Haiti. |
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Fonkoze is Haitis alternative bank for the organized poor. It is an economic alliance of peasant organizations, womens collectives, cooperatives, credit unions, "Ti Machann" groups and religious communities in Haiti set up to assist grass-roots organizations make the transition from political to economic activity by providing financial and technical services to its members. |
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AFSC-Haiti works with more than 120 community-based groups to help these communities make tangible improvements in their health and economy while creating the framework for a democratic society at the grassroots. |
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Goal: to increase general public awareness by presenting positive information on Haiti and to present the Haitian view. |
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Beyond Borders is a group of people who join together out of devotion to Christ to work for justice and peace by fostering transformative learning within and across cultural and economic borders. |
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Witness for Peace leads two to three delegations to Haiti each year that look at issues of U.S. policy and economic justice. WFP also participates in labor rights campaigns along with our partners in Haiti. |
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Informs and mobilizes American Haiti solidarity community regarding U.S. policies and legislative measures affecting Haiti and its people in the areas of immigration, trade and development and human rights. |
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The Quixote Center is a faith-based, social justice center working with people who have few resources for their struggles. We strive to make our world, our nation, and our church more just, peaceful and equitable in their policies and practices. |
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Antwan Izmery Center for Peace
Contact: Ron Voss, Bertony Domond
#6 Rue A Martiac
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
(509)246-3469, fax: same
visitationhaiti@aol.com
The Izmery Center works in collaboration with the Visitation House in the capital. It houses the offices of Pax Christi Haiti and the Haitian Solidarity Network of the Northeast; serves as an educational center (literacy, library, scholarship) for the neighborhood, and contains a medical laboratory with plans to add a tool bank and FONKOZE office.