This is Madame Gérant. She lives in the village of Bois de Lance in the Ranquitte region of Haiti. With her permission we are posting before and after photos of the rebuild of her house, made possible through an international group effort. Her house – both roof and walls – is the second house to be worked on […]
Category Archives: New Roofs
Helping people and changing lives. That’s the work in Haiti, and it never stops. This is Madame Camisou. She lives in the village of Haut Pont. This is her brand new house, almost complete (it still needs the walls sealed to protect from the wind and rain, which will be done for her right away). […]
In the past half a year we haven’t posted often but so much has been happening. The most important update: we have voted our Haitian colleague, Fresnel Desauguste, to be the president of the Board of Directors for One Hundred for Haiti. This makes Fresnel in Haiti a main guiding voice for the strategy and […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
One Hundred for Haiti kicked off its 2018 Seattle Activism Team in Seattle. If you ever wanted to contribute to a non-profit before and want to be involved in change for others, please join us for our upcoming meetings and see the many ways anyone can contribute. At the first meeting a group of new […]
Our friends in the rural north of Haiti received high winds and rain from Hurricane Irma, enough to damage small homes, but they report no injuries and were thankfully spared a direct hit from the storm. We got these photos early this morning and are already in motion to send repair funds. This will pay […]