2024 is the first year that Haitian Connection is publishing an Annual Report. We want to be transparent and show our donors and supporters what can be accomplished with minimal funds. The theme for this past year and for the Annual report is, Haiti will not perish – Ayiti pap peri. 

Editorial by THE HAITIAN TIMES, OCT. 03, 2022 John A. Carroll, MD, reposted this article on his blog at http://www.haitianhearts.org on July 8, 2024. The international community is gaslighting Haiti, literally and figuratively. We all know it, and we all need to stop the pretenses if Haiti is to pick up where it left off in…

Haiti will not perish! The title of the book by Michael Deibert kept replaying itself like a consistent mantra during my recent visit to Jeremie/Haiti, a place that I had lived and worked in for 23 years, until Covid and the mounting insecurity forced me to return to Chicago. I took a good while before…

Most of the emergency aid organizations have left Jeremie already, since it is almost 2 months after the earthquake. But little has really improved for the population in the hardest hit areas of the earthquake devastation. The work becomes consistently more difficult because the needs remain so numerous while the situation in the country becomes…

Dear Friends and Supporters, It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I write this follow-up. Because of your incredible generosity, we are able to do small things to lighten the load for the victims of this earthquake. First, I would like to give a summary of the damage that this disaster has caused…

Dear Friends and supporters of Haitian Connection, It has now been over two weeks since the earthquake hit the Grand’Anse and two other departments in Haiti. Before I give you an update, I want to thank you with a deep sense of gratitude for all of your generous donations to enable Haitian Connection to continue…

Dear friends and supporter of Haitian Connection, It has been a full week now since a 7.2 magnitude Earthquake struck the southwestern part of Haiti, leaving much damage and loss of life in its path. The country was already facing a food security crisis, compounded by high fuel prices, and the closing of transportation corridors…