All stories related to Haiti
Hot lunch in Haiti: reducing hunger, enhancing learning
Jan 13, 2012
ACT members join forces to feed and improve learning for 8,000 students every day
Haiti: hope for the schools
Mar 21, 2011
4000 schools were destroyed in the earthquake in Haiti. ACT member Finn Church Aid is helping to rebuild them
Haiti: housing programme
Jan 11, 2011
ACT member Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe has built some 600 houses for people who lost houses in the Haiti earthquake
Haiti: health for all
Jan 11, 2011
ACT member Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe has built four health centres in Bainet and is leading the reconstruction of the hospital there
Haiti: building hope through homes
Jan 07, 2011
Video on the house building programme of ACT member CRWRC in Haiti after the earthquake
Madame Guirlenes story, subtitled
Nov 19, 2010
An interview from Haiti with earthquake survivor Madame Guirlenes, with subtitles
Haiti earthquake response: six month update
Sep 08, 2010
Video update from ACT member CRWRC, six months after the earthquake in Haiti
Haiti earthquake: ACT Alliance at work
Feb 15, 2010
Paul Jeffrey's eye-witness account from the first few days after the earthquake
ACT in Haiti
ACT Alliance organisations meet in what we call a Forum to do joint analysis of the national situation, and joint planning.
Link through to Forum page in ACT Groups
International organisations in Haiti
- Christian Aid
- Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
- Church World Service (CWS)
- FinnChurch Aid, FCA
- Lutheran World Federation, The
- Lutheran World Relief
- Norwegian Church Aid
- Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
- United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
Organisations funding work in Haiti
- Bread for All
- Bread for the World
- Canadian Lutheran World Relief
- Christian World Service
- Church of Sweden
- DanChurchAid
- Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH)
- Diakonie, Austria
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- FinnChurch Aid, FCA
- ICCO
- Kerk In Actie
- Lutheran World Relief
- Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
- Presbyterian World Service & Development
- United Church of Canada
About Haiti
- Capital: Port-au-Prince
- Area: 27,750 sq km (10,714 sq miles)
- Major languages: Creole, French
- Major religion: Christianity
- Life expectancy: 59 years (men), 63 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 gourde = 100 centimes
- Main exports: Light manufactures, coffee, oils, mangoes
- GNI per capita: US $660 (World Bank, 2008)