Dear Haiti Friends,

I am grateful to so many of you for asking how you can help with the current humanitarian crisis in the Mirebalais area.  Below my signature, please find a message from For A Reason, Inc.  (Full disclosure:  I serve on FAR’s board.)  FAR supports the education of 50 students in various places in Haiti, but most of them are in the Central Plateau and Artibonite and several are from the Trianon and Mirebalais areas.  Students who have graduated from the program and are well known to us are mobilizing to feed refugees from the recent violence in Mirebalais and the surrounding area.  They have done the same sorts of things before — one working on food insecurity among students in local schools, and the other organizing food deliveries to Les Cayes when a damaging earthquake struck there several years ago.  FAR has no office or paid staff except for a Haitian liaison who tracks students and their needs and receives a small stipend, so contributions go directly to its outreach and not to overhead.

Other organizations already active in the area would be Partners in Health, http://www.pih.org, and Food for the Poor, http://www.foodforthepoor.org. 

Thank you so much for your willingness to help.