Dear Readers,  

Global Research in collaboration with AKASAN (Haitians Helping Haitians) and the Canada Haiti Action Network (CHAN), is launching a Haiti fund raising campaign in support Haitian grass-roots initiatives. 

The country’s institutions including schools and hospitals are in ruins. Income generating activities have been shattered. People have lost their homes. Beyond the provision of short-term emergency relief, what is required is the empowerment of local level civil society initiatives involved in both humanitarian and reconstruction activities. Moreover, many poor neighbourhoods in Port-au-Prince have not received adequate emergency assistance.

The funding raising drive has two related objectives: 

1) to help strengthen, in the short-run, the capacity of Haitian emergency and first response services. 

2) to contribute to grass-roots efforts, which assist the survivors of the January 2010 earthquake recover under the best conditions possible. These would also include support to health, education and housing as well as the rehabilitation of income generating activities.  

A major AKASAN fund raising Concert AYITI VIVAN : HAITI IS ALIVE! will be held in Ottawa on Saturday February 20th.

All online Global Research donations from now until February 20th will be forwarded to AKASAN.

To send your donation by mail:

kindly send your cheque(s) or money order to the following address:

Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG)
PO Box 55019
11 Notre-Dame Ouest,
MONTREAL, Qc, H2Y 4A7
CANADA

Kindly make your cheque or money order out to “AKASAN” in US or Can$. (US money orders should be “payable outside the US”)

To Donate Online in support of Haiti AKASAN initiative, click here.

All donations will be transferred by Global Research to AKASAN