Dear Friend, Earlier this year, supporters like you stepped up magnificently for Haiti. When the year started, Haiti was already grappling with the greatest humanitarian crisis in a decade, with skyrocketing rates of hunger and a worsening of the COVID pandemic. Then, in August, a massive earthquake — big enough to rival 2010’s devastating quake — ripped through southern Haiti. Mountains moved. Peasants were caught working in their fields and killed. So far 2,248 people have died and 12,763 have been injured. But Grassroots donors stepped up. Amid these compounding crises, hundreds of us provided over $220,000 to Haitian movements leading the response on the ground. With those resources, activists in the National Congress of the Peasant Movement of Papaye (MPNKP) jumped into action with drinking water, food, and temporary shelters. The Haitian Platform to Advocate Alternative Development (PAPDA) created medicine kits and provided psychosocial support to affected communities. And both movements helped get agroecology projects up and running as soon as possible, to allow communities to recover without the harmful reliance on foreign food aid. The multiple crises facing Black lives — in Haiti, in Brazil, in West Africa, and elsewhere — continue. And so must our solidarity. Will you join us in stepping up with an end-of-year donation to our New Visions, Continuing Resistance campaign? |
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Our solidarity matters. Let’s deepen our commitment before January 1, so that grassroots movements might start the year knowing they’ll have the resources to keep building their resilience, transformative vision, and collective power. In gratitude, |
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Chung-Wha Hong
Executive Director |
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