Tag: Haiti

As part of a US$132 million aid package, the World Bank has agreed to help Haiti improve its food security and roads.

Originally published by the World Bank WASHINGTON, March 17, 2022 —The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved a grant financing of US$102 million for the Emergency Resilient Agriculture for Food Security Project. The Board also approved additional financing of US$30 million for the Haiti Rural Accessibility & Resilience Project. The agriculture project will support…
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Haiti’s New Minimum Wage

In recent years, the demands of the working masses in Haiti have converged on a demand for an increase in the minimum wage. Many battles have been waged by groups, including the trade union class, against various governments to impose the principle of minimum wage on governments and employers. Today, it is a social achievement…
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The World Bank Approves Additional US$90 Million in Education Financing for Haiti

Originally published March 7, 2022, by the World Bank The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved additional grant financing of US$90 million to the Republic of Haiti for the Promoting a More Equitable, Sustainable and Safer Education Project (PROMESSE), which is expected to benefit about 150,000 students of whom about 69,000 will be girls. The…
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Addicted to Haiti? Us Too. 6 Reasons We Just Can’t Stop

Each difficulty can be seen as an additional opportunity that helps never to give up. It can also be seen as a way to invent a new way of carrying out a task or simply organize oneself differently. You can thus develop your ability to adapt and demonstrate your creativity. Haiti is a country that…
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International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day is a day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. It is celebrated in more than 100 countries around the world and is a global day of lobbying for women’s rights.  It is on this day that we celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.…
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Everyone Can Be a Changemaker

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others” – Mahatma Gandhi. Haiti has become the birthplace of countless changemakers, especially the unnamed heroes that have dedicated countless hours and effort working with nonprofits driven by a singular purpose of creating positive change in our world. Changemakers People like…
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Sustaining Civil Society

Within the current framework of intellectual struggle and global activism against systemic and institutional racism, the international community must recognize that Haiti’s victimization through racialized capitalism jeopardizes the daily lives of Haitians both inside and outside Haiti. Theories that paint Haiti as a fragile or failed state are inaccurate as they ignore the power of…
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Understand the Difference Between a Pledge and a Donation

As of Wednesday, February 16, 2022, foreign governments and international financial institutions had pledged $600 million in immediate and long-term aid to help Haiti’s cash-starved government launch a four-year plan to assist devastated communities along with its southern peninsula recover and rebuild after the deadly earthquake last August. To begin, here are a few definitions: One of the most common meanings of…
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Increasing the Value of Civil Society

International nonprofits and civil society organizations across the globe are under heavy pressure from the Covid-19 pandemic. If there has ever been a time in recent decades where we must raise our consciousness of the value of these institutions, it is now.   Civil society refers not only to domestic and social life but also to…
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The No. 1 Question Everyone Working in Haiti Should Know How to Answer

For centuries, man has been working. The primary goal of the job was to provide for the family’s needs. Man went hunting in search of food or protecting himself from predators. He then became a land cultivator to provide food for his family. Then the work changed; it was seen as a source of wealth.…
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