Local Haiti support organization Kay Tita worked in three USA cities to create cultural awareness events on January 12th 2020, the tenth anniversary of the earthquake. After bands, Haiti-related movies, and speakers, Kay Tita Executive Director David Pierre-Louis and One Hundred For Haiti Executive Director Greg Bennick spoke at the Seattle event on being first […]
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2019 into 2020: Roofs built, kids fed, with much more news to come
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We are looking forward to 2020 with hope and determination. 2019 was a wild and very difficult year in Haiti. There were disruptive protests throughout the country rooted in a gasoline shortage which kept the political situation very unstable for the better part of the year. Imagine if almost all gas was gone, electricity was […]
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January 12th 2020 Special Event at Vera Project in Seattle, on the Tenth Anniversary of the Haiti Earthquake
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Local Haitian organization Kay Tita partners with The Vera Project, Konbit Cafe, Breach Barista Collective and One Hundred For Haiti to remember the community and the people affected by the 2010 Earthquake. Kay Tita has curated a series of Haitian films guaranteed to leave a mark on our hearts and to keep Haiti and the […]
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The situation in many parts of Haiti is currently very unstable. We had a conversation this last week with one of our partners there. What started with shortages of gas in the country has snowballed. Sales of gas have stopped except on the black market. Treated water for drinking is twice as expensive as it […]
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On Episode 89 of the Punk Rock Pariah podcast, hosts Greg Bennick and Cameron Collins (both of One Hundred For Haiti) welcomed in Desha Wood to talk about her time working as a medical professional in Haiti with Naturopaths without Borders. The three talked about cultural differences faced when providing medical care in Haiti, caring […]
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Haiti has been deeply affected by political unrest in the last week. The people we serve are safe, some on lock down for personal safety, others not, but overall they are safe and hopeful, especially in Ranquitte. Greg had a trip to Haiti planned for the second half of March with high school students which […]
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Christian Castro and Greg Bennick are celebrating the sale of the first home in One Hundred For Haiti’s real estate partnership with Sea-Town Real Estate! For every Sea-Town client who mentions One Hundred For Haiti, Sea-Town donates 25% of their commissions on the sale or purchase of that home to One Hundred For Haiti for […]
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We’ve been working on this all year with our friends at Sea-Town Real Estate in Seattle and are so excited to finally announce it. The video explains it all! One Hundred For Haiti has teamed up with Sea-Town Real Estate to put roofs on houses in Haiti. For every house Sea-Town transacts that mentions One […]
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APRIL 8th 2018 This is Madame Cleguy. She lives in Bas Pinal Haiti. To make her living as a broom maker, she walks twelve hours to where a plant called lantanier grows, collects as much as she can carry on her head, and then walks twelve hours back to make brooms with the plant leaves. […]
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Late at night, sitting up in Canada, thinking about what matters, what doesn’t, where to put energy, and where not to. I just got this photo sent to me from one of the villages we support in Haiti. This is a roof you paid for this year so that a family can sleep safely. In […]