Haiti Report for September 24, 2008

The Haiti Report is a compilation and summary of events as described in Haiti and international media prepared by Konbit Pou Ayiti/KONPAY. It does not reflect the opinions of any individual or organization. This service is intended to create a better understanding of the situation in Haiti by presenting the reader with reports that provide a variety of perspectives on the situation. 

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IN THIS REPORT: 

• Destroyed Food Crops and Irrigation Systems Signal Serious Food Emergency
• US Immigration Officials Temporarily Halt Deportations to Haiti
• City of Miami Donates Hurricane Relief
• Representative Waters Calls for $300 Million in Disaster Assistance
• Congresswoman Edwards and Others Travel to Haiti to Survey Storm Damage
• UN Development Program Calls for $18.6 Million as Part of Flash Appeal for over $100 Million
• Aid Not Reaching Those Who Need it Most
• Wyclef Jean and Matt Damon Visit Gonaives to Encourage Aid
• Statement from Haitian Organizations in the Wake of the Hurricanes

Destroyed Food Crops and Irrigation Systems Signal Serious Food Emergency:

Four tropical storms have wiped out most of Haiti’s food crops and damaged irrigation systems and pumping stations, raising the specter of acute hunger for millions in the impoverished country. ”The system of agriculture has been destroyed,” Agriculture Minister Joanas Gue told The Associated Press. Aid agencies and diplomats also say Haiti desperately needs help to avert mass hunger. Emergency aid has flowed in to people directly affected by Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike, storms that triggered flooding and killed at least 425 people in less than a month, including 194 in the critical rice-growing Artibonite Valley.

But the United Nations has raised less than 2 percent of a critical $108 million fundraising appeal, said Stephanie Bunker, a spokeswoman for the world body’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Another $18 million has been pledged but not delivered. And much, much more is needed, with farms damaged or destroyed across the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. ”This will take billions of dollars. This is not something small,” U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Henrietta Fore told AP.

Schools that were supposed to open in early September are still filled with refugees fighting over scraps of food aid. Much of Gonaives, the nation’s fourth largest city, remains flooded and without electricity. Malaria and other diseases are beginning to spread. ”The scope of this is frankly unimaginable in many countries,” said U.S. Ambassador Janet Sanderson. “A lot of the progress of the last couple of years has been swept away by these waters.” The U.S. government is sending $29 million in food aid and humanitarian assistance, and countries like Colombia have airlifted food and clothing. U.N. agencies have delivered food to more than 240,000 people, aided by soldiers of its 9,000-strong peacekeeping force and military ships like the USS Kearsarge and Canada’s HMCS St. John.

Haiti always struggled to feed its people. Now, it’s getting to be impossible. On a helicopter tour on Tuesday, Fore saw that floodwaters still covered much of Haiti’s rice-growing region. Crops were covered with brown mud or lay crushed in ruined fields stretching far as the eye could see. Gue, the agriculture minister, estimates that 60 percent of this year’s food harvest has been wiped out by the storms, which hit just as farmers were preparing to collect corn, plantains and yams from their fields. The fall rice harvest was lost as well.

The damage could be felt for years — mountain topsoil, already loosened by rampant deforestation, washed out to sea. Hundreds of irrigation basins, canals and pumping stations were damaged, and about 10,000 tons (9,000 metric tons) of discounted fertilizer distributed to farmers disappeared. Altogether, Gue estimated the storms caused $180 million in damage to Haiti’s agricultural sector. Food prices in some hard-hit cities have been pushed to even greater heights. After Ike, which brushed by Haiti on Sept. 7, the cost of U.S.-imported rice had doubled in Gonaives to $5.38 for a large can. For millions of Haitians already facing malnutrition, a daily bowl of rice has become too expensive.

Jacques-Edouard Michele’s family used to depend on the rations of rice and plantains his father was paid to work in the Artibonite fields. ”Even before the storms, we were hungry,” he said. “Now we are looking everywhere for food.” If the world does not respond with long-term aid, experts warn that deadly food riots could re-ignite, unraveling Haiti’s fragile political stability. ”The situation is calm for now but it could easily erupt again,” the Brussels-based International Crisis Group said this week. (AP, 9/19)

US Immigration Officials Temporarily Halt Deportations to Haiti:

As Haiti faces a worsening food crisis and deepening poverty, U.S. immigration officials have decided to temporarily halt deportations to the country, rocked by a devastating cluster of storms. ’’There are no imminent removals to Haiti,’’ Barbara Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Friday. ``We are aware of the situation — no removals are scheduled or planned.’’ The deportations could resume at any time, according to the government. Friday’s decision comes as Haiti attempts to dig itself out of four consecutive storms that have left at least 425 people dead, tens of thousands homeless, and wiped out more than $180 million in crops. It also comes as South Florida immigration advocates wage a larger battle to help undocumented Haitians earn the right to temporarily stay.

‘’We’re very encouraged by this latest announcement — that’s terrific news,’’ said Cheryl Little, executive director of Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center. ``We’re hopeful that Haitians won’t be sent back until the country has had a chance to recover.’’ However, the U.S. Coast Guard had not received orders changing its policy of sending back Haitian migrants found at sea. ’’We are continuing our operations,’’ U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer James Harless said late Friday. ``If the Coast Guard interdicts [Haitian migrants] at sea, we are still repatriating them to their country.’’

 Haiti’s wide-scale devastation has prompted an outpouring of relief from South Floridians as well as requests from the United Nations for an additional $100 million in aid. The country begins three days of official mourning on Monday. In the storm’s aftermath, immigration attorneys and allies renewed calls for authorities to provide temporary protected status, or TPS, to undocumented Haitians, a program that temporarily suspends deportations and enables obtain work permits. Friday’s decision does not grant temporary protected status. ’’We’re evaluating the conditions on the ground on a day-to-day basis,’’ Gonzalez said. ``When we feel it’s appropriate to resume, we will notify members of Congress.’’

Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart welcomed the move but also pushed for the authorities to go further. ’’I have strongly urged the administration to grant Temporary Protected Status to Haitians,’’ he said. He said he recently reiterated his request along with congressional colleagues Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Diaz-Balart wrote in an e-mail. In the wake of the storm, immigration advocates have been scrambling to prevent the deportation of Haitians back to the island nation. (Miami Herald, 9/20)

City of Miami Donates Hurricane Relief:

City of Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones will lead a 20-member delegation to Haiti Friday to deliver 50,000 pounds of hurricane relief to storm-ravaged victims in the impoverished Caribbean nation. The supplies, collected from local companies and individuals in recent days, are being flown to Port-au-Prince by DHL, and will arrive on Saturday. With the help of World Vision, the group plans to deliver the supplies to hard-hit Gonaives, Cabaret, Port-de-Paix, Jacmel and the Isle of La Tortue. Four successive storms, including two hurricanes, in less than a month have killed at least 425 Haitians and impacted about a million people throughout the country. The delivery is just one example of the aid being offered by South Florida, where everyone from school children to corporations, have been assisting with the hurricane relief effort.

 Food For the Poor, based in Coconut Creek, for instance has sent more than 65 shipping containers to Haiti in recent weeks — and launched an appeal featuring local Miami band Mawon. Also military crews from the USS Kearsarge have delivered more than 1.9 million pounds of supplies, including 24,800 gallons of water, by helicopter and boat to hard-hit regions of the country as part of an effort led by the United States Agency for International Development. Meanwhile, hoping to make it easier for hurricane relief supplies to get into the country, the Haitian government has put some procedures in place, including temporary removal of import duties, said the country’s finance minister Daniel Dorsainvil. Specially-designated customs agents will be assigned to work with nongovernmental and international organizations shipping relief supplies.

For individuals or others who do not have access to customs waivers, Dorsainvil said, ``we’ve set up a system whereby they can allow the Civil Protection unit to take over and clear customs for them and be involved in the distribution.’’ To ensure hassle free delivery of supplies to the island, Dorsainvil recommends that individuals or agencies contact the local Haitian Consul General office or send an email to mefcyclone@mefhaiti.gouv.ht (Miami Herald, 9/18)

Representative Waters Calls for $300 Million in Disaster Assistance:

Today, Rep. Maxine Waters (D CA) delivered a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, urging her to include at least $300 million in disaster assistance for Haiti in the supplemental appropriations bill or another appropriate bill.  The letter was signed by 67 Members of Congress.  Copies of the letter were delivered to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Appropriations.  The text of the letter follows:

0.We are writing to request that you include at least $300 million in appropriations for disaster assistance for Haiti following the devastating hurricanes that swept through that impoverished country.

Over the past month, Haiti has been devastated by four deadly storms in rapid succession, Tropical Storm Fay, Hurricane Gustav, Tropical Storm Hanna, and Hurricane Ike.  On Monday, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reported that 15,134 houses have been damaged or destroyed, and 154 people have been killed.  As the flood waters began to recede, additional bodies have been found and buried.  Tragically, the death toll may never be known.

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), up to 800,000 people in Haiti are in dire need of humanitarian assistance.  As of September 6th, more than 100,000 people had taken refuge in temporary shelters – and this was before the onslaught of Hurricane Ike.  Many roads and bridges have been damaged or destroyed, and crops have been lost.  There is a desperate need for food, water, and health services.

Haiti is already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.  It does not have the capacity to respond to the widespread death and destruction caused by storms of this magnitude.  Immediate assistance from the United States is critical to meet the emergency needs of the Haitian people and begin to rebuild damaged homes and infrastructure.

We urge you to provide an appropriation of at least $300 million in disaster assistance for Haiti in the supplemental appropriations bill or another legislative vehicle that will be passed before Congress adjourns, and we look forward to working with you to help the people of Haiti rebuild their homes and their lives after these unprecedented storms.

Congresswoman Waters has been a leader in Congress in efforts to assist Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, with democratization and economic development.  She has also championed international debt cancellation for poor nations through legislation such as H. R. 2634, the Jubilee Act. (9/12)

Congresswoman Edwards and Others Travel to Haiti to Survey Storm Damage:

Congresswoman Donna F. Edwards (D-MD), Congressman Kendrick B. Meek (D-FL), and Congresswoman Yvette D. Clark (D-NY) traveled to Haiti to see firsthand the situation there after four devastating hurricanes hit the country in the last several weeks, including the latest Hurricane Ike. The Congressmembers, along with several others, have signed onto a request by Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) for immediate disaster relief for Haiti. They also called on the Bush Administration to grant temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitians in the U.S. to enable them to send money and aid back to their country. To date, the Administration has ignored requests for TPS for Haitians. According to the very preliminary estimates, over 600 people are dead and tens of thousands are homeless in the impoverished country as a direct result of these four major storms.

Rep. Edwards released the following statement: ”Hurricane Ike left its damaging mark from the Caribbean to Texas and Louisiana. My thoughts and prayers go out to the storm’s latest victims in Texas and Louisiana. The Congress will make certain that sufficient resources are available for relief, recovery and rebuilding of these devastated areas.

“As we take action to help our fellow Americans recover from Hurricane Ike in Texas and Louisiana, we can not forget the pain and suffering of millions of our neighbors to the south in Haiti who bore Ike’s wrath as the hurricane made its way through the Caribbean to the gulf coast of Texas. In Haiti, I witnessed firsthand the destruction left in the wake of four hurricanes that hit Haiti in rapid succession — major bridges and roads destroyed, water, sewer, and power infrastructure destroyed, virtually all of the rice and food crop under water, animal carcasses scattered across the countryside, hundreds dead and thousands homeless. The people of Haiti are in desperate need of food, shelter, medical supplies and drinking water.

“I join my Congressional colleagues in calling for additional resources to help bring immediate relief to the people of Haiti. I applaud the efforts of our service members on the USS Kearsarge for supplying basic necessities to victims in the remotest areas of Haiti. They are the Haitians lifeline in this crisis. If we do not act immediately to do even more, what is already a humanitarian disaster in Haiti will only worsen and possibly threaten internal stability and security in the hemisphere.

“As an additional measure, the U.S. government should grant temporary protected status to Haitians currently in the U.S. After seeing the situation on the ground in Haiti, we can not, with a clear conscience, deport these individuals back to Haiti under the current conditions. The money and supplies they send back to their families is critical to helping Haiti recover.”

UN Development Program Calls for $18.6 Million as Part of Flash Appeal for over $100 Million:

In response to the devastating hurricanes that displaced tens of thousands of families in Haiti in recent weeks, the United Nations Develoment Programme (UNDP) today called for $18.6 million to help affected communities get back on their feet. The appeal is part of the overall UN Flash Appeal for over $100 million, launched by John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. The magnitude of the damages calls for significant and urgent donor support as part of the continued commitment and solidarity of the international community with the people of Haiti.

UNDP is currently dispatching to Haiti a team of specialists that will strengthen its office in Port-au-Prince and several sub offices, including in the battered city of Gonaives. These experts will increase UNDP’s ability to address the critical gap in coverage between humanitarian relief and long-term recovery. While working within a humanitarian setting, the UNDP teams will have their eyes on the future – assessing damages to infrastructure, property, livelihoods, and societies. Their goal is to enable a smoother transition to long-term recovery: to restore livelihoods, government capacities, roads, and shelters. They will immediately start working on a disaster recovery plan to help put the country on the path to longer-term development.

“UNDP is leading the early recovery work that will be woven into our long-term commitment to Haiti,” said Rebeca Grynspan, Director of UNDP’s Bureau for Latin America and Caribbean. “Our commitment will address the fact that a staggering 78 percent of Haitians still live on less that $2 per day and 54 percent on less than $1 per day. We want to ensure that disaster risk reduction, job creation and the needs of the Haitian people are articulated in one effective strategy. “

 The Flash Appeal includes two UNDP projects to rehabilitate areas affected by recent floods and hurricanes. The first aims to reconstruct rural areas by putting in place anti-erosion mechanisms and rebuilding flood control infrastructure. The second project will focus on restoring basic public safety by cleaning and repairing urban drainage channels, streets and public utilities and facilities. Both projects are labour-intensive and are expected to put 400 000 people to work. These two early recovery activities are fully integrated into the wider UNDP country programme in Haiti which aims to  support the country’s recovery towards sustainable human development. Their implementation will be an inter-agency process led by the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Joel Boutroue, who serves also as the UN Humanitarian and Resident Coordinator. (UN, 9/17)

Aid Not Reaching Those Who Need it Most:

Even as local Haitian musicians and business owners prepared for a benefit concert and telethon taking place in the capital Sunday, residents of nearby communities where consecutive storms carved a deadly path complained of receiving little help. ’Nothing has gone to Cazale,’’ Famize Jedeus, 27, a vendor from the mountain village just north of Port-au-Prince said as she stood alongside a highway, trying to sell the last bunch of plantains she managed to pull from underneath a flooded grove. ``We, the victims of the hurricane, can’t find anything.’’ Aid was slowly trickling in, but it wasn’t enough.

With an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 people in this region alone affected by Hurricane Ike, officials were struggling to provide food and water to the 2,330 staying at a shelter, let alone others living on the street. As U.S. and UN military helicopters buzzed overhead, life slowly seemed to return to this ravaged shantytown. Among the signs: a group of Cuban doctors, parked alongside a rural road, mending cuts and bruises and providing medication.

At the entrance of another nearby village, hundreds of children and adults screamed and pushed as a local church pastor and scouts handed out 500 plastic bags filled with rice, spaghetti and cooking oil from the back of a white cargo truck. But down the street, the need — and the lack of aid — was glaring as the local Red Cross struggled to treat the steady flow of storm victims alongside a busy street. The treatment room was a dusty lot, shaded by a blue tarp, across from the Taboula Nightclub. Instead of surgical masks, nurses covered their faces with gauze as they poured peroxide into open wounds. A few feet away, coordinator Dieudonne Jean and two assistants cataloged the patients’ names and injuries on a yellow legal-size notepad. Behind the three of them: just a few dozen tiny bags of drinking water and bread donated by a local church ministry. ’’We don’t have anything in stock, just that water there to give to the population,’’ said Jean, turning around and pointing to a clear trash bag on the ground. ’’We don’t have a lot of means,’’ said Jean, reciting an exhaustive list of needs — from surgical masks and medicines to water tablets and an ambulance to transport patients. ``What we have is our list. We put together a case for each family, listing what they need. When we are finished, we take what we have and provide what we can to each family.’’ According to their list, 71 people died in Cabaret when two raging rivers overflowed their banks. Twenty-five remain missing, and 2,330 are homeless.

 Then there are the psychological scars. Yvany St. Louis, 35, said her three daughters haven’t had a good night sleep since their baby sister was washed away by the floods that snatched her out of her arms. ’’They are very emotional,’’ said St. Louis, who came to the makeshift clinic for treatment of an open gash on her swollen left leg. There were a few signs of normalcy. Vendors peddled produce salvaged from flooded groves at a makeshift market. And at the river’s edge, where bodies and drowned animals had washed up days earlier, women sat on the debris of fallen houses, doing laundry. (Miami Herald, 9/14)

Wyclef Jean and Matt Damon Visit Gonaives to Encourage Aid:

Cries of adulation – and hunger – followed Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean and actor Matt Damon as they toured flood-ravaged Gonaives to call attention to widespread suffering in the marooned city. Tropical Storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike submerged the Haitian city and cut off roadways. Where waters have receded, streets remain a stinking mud bath and homes are carpeted with muck and encrusted pots, pans and laundry. ”I’m speechless, I can’t believe it,” said Damon, looking down from a U.N. helicopter at people living on the rooftops of flooded homes. The four-hour visit Sunday passed in a blur of stenches, colors and noise. A man on a bicycle tried to keep up with Damon and Jean’s truck, shouting, “I love you, Wyclef.” Jean raised his hand, but couldn’t smile back.

“It’s inhumane. I wish there was a word in the dictionary. No human should be living like this,” said Jean, who became famous through his Grammy-winning band, The Fugees, and later emerged as a solo artist. As they turned onto the flooded Rue Christophe, another pickup packed with women sloshed within arm’s reach. Face-to-face with the celebrities, the women cried, “We’re hungry!” A young man calf-deep in water raised both arms and shouted, “Fix our roads. Fix our city!” Damon and Jean encouraged help for the United Nations to raise more than US$100 million for 800,000 Haitians in need after four tropical storms and hurricanes have struck the country since mid-August.

Jean’s Yele Haiti charity is helping the World Food Program and the Organization of American States-affiliated Pan American Development Foundation distribute food to 3,000 families. The convoy visited a school shelter Sunday to hand out cooking oil and bags of beans. Fears that unrest is simmering here has led U.N. officials to distribute food at night under Argentine soldiers’ guard. Haitian officials have discussed building new settlements for vulnerable residents above the current city.

Once emergency aid started arriving four days after the storm, the U.N. agencies began ratcheting up food distributions to reach as many as 12,000 people a day. More than 120,000 people are in shelters in the Artibonite region, which includes Gonaives, desperate for water and food, the Haitian government reported. Damon and Jean waded through knee-deep floodwaters and climbed a stage outside the Gonaives cathedral, where 500 people have taken refuge in the choir gallery. The pair did not go into the cathedral, but Jean sang for a few minutes to a crowd outside. When he later tried to leave, people swept him into the streets. Admirers, some asking for money, clung to U.N. trucks as they drove away. (Miami Herald, 9/15)

Statement from Haitian Organizations in the Wake of the Hurricanes: 

The position of numerous organisations and institutions on the situation facing the Haitian people who have survived the hurricanes, Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike – 14 September 2008. The organisations signing this note salute the memory of all the people who lost their lives during the passage of the four hurricanes that have hit the country’s 10 departments. We offer our solidarity to all the victims’ families and to all the people suffering from the consequences of the four hurricanes. 

 What is the situation today? For some time Haiti has been experiencing a great period of despair and desolation that has been made worse by the 2008 hurricane season. After the passage of Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike, we are exhausted by having to count the number of dead bodies, the people made homeless, the children made orphans, and the people who can’t be found. And on top of all this we have to calculate the terrible economic impact on the country at this time. 

 In nearly all corners of the country we find valleys under water, terrible landslides, vast quantities of earth washed into the sea, huge numbers of trees uprooted, many fields and gardens washed away, countless numbers of livestock drowned, and a lot of houses under water and many others destroyed – without forgetting the bridges that have fallen down and the primary and secondary roads that have been cut. 

 Today we find many people from the towns as well as from the mountain areas standing passively in resignation. It’s a case of an abscess on top of a boil, since the country’s economy has already taken a huge blow from the political decisions of the Haitian state intertwined with the policies of the IMF, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, World Trade Organisation, USAID, etc. The inappropriate policies adopted by these international institutions, together with the bad policies of the Haitian State, have caused this ever worsening catastrophe which leaves the country unable to respond. The State finds itself in a situation where it has lost authority. It cannot respond to the problems. It cannot manage the national territory when things are normal, still less in times of catastrophe. It doesn’t provide its leaders with the tools to manage, nor to organise, nor to plan ahead. It is even incapable of preserving the natural resources that it has in its hands. 

One reason that is often given for the way the hurricanes always hit this country is environmental degradation. However this degradation is a result of the economic, social, cultural, and political choices of the ruling class – choices based on an unequal distribution of wealth which encourages the pillage of the country’s resources and allows a small group to make millions. That’s why when we look at the situation that has developed in the agricultural sector, we see peasants who have difficulty in finding good soil to work with and who are obliged to sit it out in the mountains to see if they can grow a little food to put in their family’s mouths, while it is they who keep the country’s economy standing. 

 There are other examples, such as the energy crisis that the country has been going through for some time. The State can never sort out this problem which has become a ready stick to beat the population. The consumption of wood increases day by day – we find bakeries, dry-cleaners, the use of wood for scaffolding poles, all putting pressure on the environment – while at the same time nothing is done to find an alternative source of energy or to increase wood production in the country. We don’t see any reforestation programme or any programmes to protect the environment. The absence of State policies has serious consequences for the issue of housing and other urban problems, because people build wherever they can, and shantytowns spring up like mushrooms. 

This dire situation that we are living through today has come at a difficult juncture where the country is already suffering from a food crisis and an increase in the cost of living. What is even more worrying is that the humanitarian relief services are often insufficient, and cannot even reach the more needy disaster victims. That is without even mentioning those who do manage to find some assistance, and In a state of great humiliation manage to grab something to eat. We have witnessed many who have been saved from the floods, only to die from a lack of food afterwards. 

 What is to be done? What can we do? 

 Confronted with this dire situation, we must stop responding with patchy solutions. Its only by organising a substantial long-term mobilisation that the country will be able to emerge from the hole it is in. We, as human rights and progressive organisations who have signed on to this declaration/statement in total solidarity with disaster victims, have put together a provisional structure in order to: 

– Act as mediators between disaster victims in the peasant community and government officials, as well as NGOs, by giving information so that the rights of the victims are recognised and so that they can get the help they need. 

 - Assess the hurricane damage in the areas where we are working (and have an established contacts), and give support and succour to those communities in their time of need. 

 On the other hand, we must redouble the fight to get the State to take measures to tackle the roots of the problems by: Carrying out a comprehensive agrarian reform, as called for in the country’s Constitution; Clearly defining zones for agriculture, zones for construction, zones for exploitation of the forest, and zones for forest conservation; Guaranteeing that the country takes responsibility for its own food production/exercises food sovereignty; Reducing the economic pressure on our natural resources, and then setting up, controlling and subsidising other sources of energy for the country; Increasing the production of wood for consumption; Protesting against the payment of US$5 million due for debt service in September, and insisting that it instead be added to the mere 51 million gourdes (US$1.3 million) that the State has so far allocated for disaster relief; Demanding the State stop paying the external debt and instead uses the money for the reconstruction of the social, economic and physical environment of the country. 

Signed by the following institutions: 1- Platfòm Oganizasyon Ayisyen k ap Defanm Dwa Moun yo (POHDH), 2- Platfòm Ayisyen k ap Plede pou yon Devlòpman Altènatif (PAPDA), 3- Enstiti Kiltirèl Karl Leveque ( ICKL), 4- Enstiti Teknoloji ak Animasyon (ITECA), 5- Sosyete Animasyon ak Kominikasyon Sosyal (SAKS), 6- Solidarite Fanm Ayisyèn (SOFA), 7- Mouvman Demokratik Popilè (MODEP), 8- Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen (TK), 9- Pwogram Altènativ Jistis (PAJ), 10- Solidarite Ant Jèn (SAJ/VEYE YO), 11- Mouvman Peyizan Papaye (MPP), 12- CHANDEL (Oganizasyon Popilè pou Edikasyon Popilè), 13- Sèvis Ekimenik pou Devlopman ak Edikasyon Popile (SEDEP), 14- Gwoup Apwi Teknik an Animasyon Pedagojik (GATAP), 15- Antèn Nòdwès, 16- Fonds International pour le Développement Economique et Social (FIDES) (Translated from Creole by Charles Arthur for the Haiti Support Group)