Sep 11, 2020 | International Crisis
Haiti is considered to be one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Natural disasters, chronic poverty, and other problems have crippled the country for decades. More recently, devastating drought, serious political unrest, and the worldwide coronavirus...
Apr 30, 2020 | Crisis Response
Many Haitians aren’t strangers to hunger. Crisis after crisis has plunged the country deep into poverty, leaving one in three Haitians malnourished and unable to buy enough food. Lack of rain in the last five years caused a food shortage in Haiti and made food items...
Aug 6, 2019 | SALT Microfinance Solutions
Growing up without parents, Julmiste’s life in Haiti was not easy. His father abandoned the family before Julmiste was born. Then his mother died some years later while he was still young. Julmiste’s older sister raised him and his two brothers the best she could. As...
Jun 6, 2019 | SALT Microfinance Solutions
Haitian farmers are excited about a new variety of bean they learned about through CAM’s SALT Agri-Plus program. Lomond, a farmer in the mountains of Haiti, planted a test plot with two bean varieties. Lomond planted some of his previous kind and some of the new...
Jan 10, 2019 | Water-for-the-World
Some of us children from our village had an exciting day. Today some North Americans living in Haiti told someone from our village that they were opening the clean water station in our community for the first time! It didn’t take long for everyone to find out. We...
