Haiti’s countryside Trou Du Nord may hold the key to relieving it from centuries of poverty, disaster and disease: There is gold hidden in its hills — and silver and copper, too.
A flurry of exploratory drilling in the past year has found precious metals worth potentially $20 billion deep below the tropical ridges in the [...]

Gathered at the hotel Karibe from February 28 to March 1, 2012 in Port-au-Prince, women from all departments of Haiti have together, defined a “National Platform of Action of Haitian Women for the Reconstruction”, created following an agreement between leaders of 150 women’s association to enable them to speak with one voice.
The President Martelly accompanied, [...]

Friends of Haiti in NY provides fund-raising and publicizing venue for local initiatives in rural, impoverished areas of Haiti — including an elementary school for the communities in Fond Verrettes and LaKay. Furthermore, we setup artisans co-operative in Verrettes, Artibonite with other projects to come. These projects are part of grassroots movements that we seeks [...]

The University of Notre Dame Haiti Program will spend less money to light and power its operations thanks to the addition of 16 solar panels, the work of a non-for-profit foundation led by two 1985 Notre Dame graduates.
The Let’s Share the Sun Foundation, based in Troy, N.Y., completed the second phase of a solar installation [...]

We all know that women and girls living in areas of armed conflict and disaster suffer the worst consequences of crises due to their heightened vulnerability. We also know dozens of initiatives, conferences, reports, and guidelines have been elaborated with the aim of mainstreaming gender-sensitive approaches in responses to humanitarian crises. Why then does our [...]

The Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs welcomed the first-ever group of Youth Ambassadors from Haiti to the United States on August 7. For three weeks, 20 Haitian high school students will travel to New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. where they will meet with their U.S. peers, live with [...]

America Green International is mounting a local campaign to deliver 1,000 solar light bulbs to Haitian refugees.
The effort began after a trip to Haiti last January to explore the benefits of introducing green technologies there, says Program Coordinator Leah Quintal. Her and other aid workers gave a man who operates a food stand a pair [...]

What do an actor, a former president and an art dealer have in common? Well for Bill Clinton, Ben Stiller and David Zwirner it’s a fundraiser. They will co-chair an exclusive event for The Stiller Foundation.
The event will take place on Friday, Sept. 23, in New York at Skylight Soho. It celebrates the previous evening’s [...]

The Starkey Hearing Foundation announced that Miley Cyrus will return to Haiti for a Starkey Hearing Foundation mission. The announcement comes after Miley Cyrus, who is an advocate for the Starkey Hearing Foundation, made a sizable donation through the silent auction at the organization’s annual gala “So The World May Hear” which was held last [...]

A dozen historically Black colleges and universities have formed a consortium to help rebuild the earthquake-damaged State University of Haiti, the Caribbean country’s largest institution of higher education.
Led by Florida A&M University, the consortium hopes to raise $12 million to construct a classroom building equipped to receive telecourses taught by faculty from the Black colleges. [...]