Haiti Earthquake Updates

Haiti suffered a devastating earthquake just outside the capital city of Port-au-Prince, its biggest city. For about 20 years, Grassroots International has worked with community-based organizations in Haiti, including working with them in times of natural disaster like hurricanes. We are currently accepting donations to provide much-needed emergency relief to the people of Haiti. Earthquake Response Funds will directly support our partner and ally organizations in Haiti who are engaged in long-term recovery and rebuilding efforts.

This page is dedicated to updates on Haiti and offers links to additional resources.

Grassroots International Blog Entries and Updates

• Haitian Led Reconstruction and Development
• Feeding Dependency, Starving Democracy... Still
• Combatting Hunger by Reforesting Haiti
• Demand Accountable and Transparent US Aid to Haiti
• Beating Hunger in Haiti with Seeds and Tools for Small Farmers
• Haiti: "Post Disaster Needs Assessment" - Whose Needs? Whose Assessment?
• Rebuilding Haiti, with a Rwandan Twist
• Fault Lines--Hait: The Politics of Rebuilding
• In Haiti, Support Local Communities, Not Microcredit Agencies
• After the Catastrophe: Our Country Can Rise Again
• Grassroots Partners in Haiti receive emergency funding
• From Gaza to Haiti and Back Again
• Boston-area kids raise money to support Haiti
• Via Campesina calls for International Solidarity in Haiti
• Breaking the Chains of Dependence in Haiti
• Ten Things the United States Can and Should Do for Haiti
• Letter from Camille Chalmers, PAPDA
• Grassroots International Establishes Earthquake Emergency Response Fund for Haiti
• A Note from our Colleagues at the Presbyterian Hunger Program
• Answering the Call Even when the Phone Isn't Answered
• Rethinking Aid... Again: Responding to the Earthquake in Haiti
• Humanitarian Crises: What is a Progressive to do?
• All Hands Responding to the Haiti Emergency
• Tell Congress to Urge Homeland Security to Grant Temporary Protective Status for Haitians 

Additional News and Information Sources

• AlertNet: A humanitarian news network from the Reuters Foundation that provides detailed news updates on the extent of damage and ongoing humanitarian relief efforts.

• ReliefWeb: A project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. This Web site serves as a clearing house for information related to the earthquakes and ongoing situational reports.

• United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): An entity within the United Nations Secretariat that provides a map of the earthquake damage.