Youthaiti

Thanks to YOU, our supporters, our first “Unity Makes Strength” benefit dinner was a resounding success!!  We had over 150 attendees and raised over $15,000!  Everyone enjoyed the Haitian-style food, the Haitian art and crafts, the silent auction and the music by De La Buena.  We had guests from Haiti representing the YOUTHAITI board, and our partners [...]

Thanks to recent donations, and especially a grant from the Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief, we were able to plan 3 new public toilets to be built in the next month.   As areas in the countryside absorb internally displaced people, the need for sanitation and increased agricultural production are increased.  Every area I visited in [...]

As always, I return from Haiti with mixed emotions.  Anxious to be home, sad to be leaving.  Already looking forward to planning my next trip.

As I try to review for myself the trip as a whole, I’d like to share my thoughts and impressions with you.  The first few days were spent in Port-au-Prince – [...]

Dear friends of YOUTHAITI:

The news of the recent earthquake in Haiti is devastating for all of us. We pray for all of the people of Haiti as we anxiously await word of the health and well being of our partners and their families in Haiti, as well as the several hundred families and whole communities [...]

Dec 5, 8:00 PM   4th Annual YOUTHAITI Benefit Concert

Please join us on Saturday December 5 at 8:00 PM at the 19th Street Coffee House as Harvey Taylor, Holly Haebig, Jahmes Finlayson and KT Rusch share their musical gifts with us. Every year this concert has gotten better and better.

We look  forward to seeing you [...]

Haitian Blue coffee now available!!

YOUTHAITI has partnered with Foundation Espoir Grande’Anse and Cafe de la Hotte to bring you a new coffee experience!  Haitian coffee is known for it’s rich, deep flavor.  Grown in the mountains around Duchity, the farmers lacked an export market until now.  As we partner with Foundation EGA and Cafe de [...]

Dear Friends,

It’s late June, and I’m finalizing my preparations for my sixth trip to Haiti in the last two-and-a-half years. I leave on July 11 with Liat, my daughter, and Annette, a computer specialist, and will meet up with Kenson, our Canadian student intern for a two-week visit to Duchity and Beaumont, where we will [...]

Dear Friends,

Those of you who have followed my travels to Haiti in the past may have been disappointed to not receive any email updates while we were in Duchity.  Unfortunately, we did not have internet access during this trip, and did not have power much of the time either.  So here is a recap -

After [...]

Dear Friends of Haiti -

I have hesitated to send this letter out, and I’m not sure why. I continue to watch the news reports in the international press and Haitian press after the 4 hurricanes hit the island within 3 weeks time. Maybe you’ve seen them too. The devastation is overwhelming.

Photos were taken by my [...]