Dear friends of PowerU, regarding Haiti
Dear Friends of Power U,
In these difficult times we send our thoughts and prayers to the people in Haiti; their families here in our Miami community and those living around the globe. We want to do our part to provide support to the many stages of recovery for Haiti.
Many of you have contacted us asking what you can do to help the people/survivors in Haiti. We have consulted with individuals we know and trust to provide us with good information and leadership in determining the best step for us to take right now.
We have listed the two organizations we believe will provide the most effective immediate results to aiding and rebuilding for the current residents of Haiti. We believe that there must be a grassroots, progressive on-going movement within Haiti to ensure the best for the Haitian people. These organizations have a history of important grassroots work in Haiti.
If you click on the links you can go to the website of these organizations and make your donations directly.
In Unity & Struggle,
Power U Staff, Board and Members
PARTNERS IN HEALTH
Partners In Health (PIH) works to bring modern medical care to poor communities in nine countries around the world. The work of PIH has three goals: to care for our patients, to alleviate the root causes of disease in their communities, and to share lessons learned around the world. Based in Boston, PIH employs more than 11,000 people worldwide, including doctors, nurses and community health workers. The vast majority of PIH staff are local nationals based in the communities we serve.
GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL
http://www.grassrootsonline.org/
Grassroots International works to create a just and sustainable world by building alliances with progressive movements.
The Haitian Platform to Advocate Alternative Development (PAPDA) is a coalition of nine Haitian popular and non-governmental organizations which work with the Haitian popular movement to develop alternatives to the neo-liberal model of economic globalization. When the Haitian government moved to privatize certain industries, PAPDA worked with the unions and the business community to create strategies that would improve production and minimize cost without privatization. The coalition has worked with the agricultural sector to devise ways of producing and selling indigenous Haitian crops and protecting Haitian farmers from cheap imported grains.