Your partner will come to our mini-center at least once a month for four hours, where they will have classes, workshops, messaging stations, and a creative activity, and will receive a hot, nutritious meal. They will also have the use of our PINP center in their neighborhood, for literacy training and other community activities. In addition, you may purchase Optional programs.
Through this process, and in the context of your partnership with them, they will be expanding their horizons and building the personal qualities needed for direct action to improve their life and community.
The main way you can help is by cultivating an active relationship with your partner. Optional programs are also available. Proposals for larger scale community development are being developed, and you can help with these. You can help spread the word about People in Need Partnership. You may also contribute any amount to our general funds.
Our staff in Haiti
Marcel Jean
Community Coordinator
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Myriam Dejean
Partnership Manager
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Marc Louis
Assistant Coordinator
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Our staff in Portland, Oregon
Shadia Duery
Board member
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Background and History of People in Need Partnership
People in Need Partnership is a creation of
Visionary Society, a non-partisan, not religious organization designed to connect what lies under the surface with practical action. People in Need Partnership is an example of that process. In 2005 and 2006 it published a monthly newspaper called
Alaska Humanity News, with News of the real - the personal and meaningful origins of everyday events.
All administrative costs are covered by our primary sponsor,
Qupqugiaq Inn, a small, unique hotel in Anchorage, Alaska.
Laura in Cite Soleil school
Our collapsed office after earthquake
Our new office in Port-au-PrinceWherever a person is crying out for help, and no one hears them, another person is waiting for the call. That is why our first stop is Haiti, an abandoned country just south of Florida, a world of hungry and neglected people, a country with the third lowest calorie intake in the world.
Our Haiti locations
Our main office is located in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. We have a staff of 5 full-time and several part-time workers. We are working in several neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince, including the notorious slum of Cite Soleil (and also in Jalouzie, Citron, and Delmas). Our U.S. offices are in Anchorage, Alaska and Portland, Oregon.
Background information on Haiti
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. Seventy-six per cent of the population lives on less than $2.25 a day, and 55 per cent live on less than $1.13 a day.
Haiti is home to about 50,000 street children, and another 250,000 children who work as restaveks or child slaves.
Severe or moderate malnutrition and stunting affects 42 percent of children under five. Preventable sickness like malnutrition and diarrhoea kill 28 percent and 20 percent of children under five years old.
Haiti ranks along with Afghanistan and Somalia as one of the three countries of the world with the worst daily caloric deficit per inhabitant (460 kcal/day). Some 2.4 million Haitians cannot afford the minimum 2,240 daily calories recommended by the World Health Organization.
Our partners live in four slums in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
This is Cite Soleil
PINP staff member conducting interviews after earthquake
Collapsed building after the January, 2010 earthquake
A million people are still sleeping in tents or sheets in Port-au-Prince
