Haitian Connection president Renate Schneider meets with and joins the activities of organizations outside of Haiti that are also looking for ways to improve the lives of Haitians, both in Haiti and abroad.
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Annual Report for 2025
In keeping with our plan to provide transparency regarding our use of donor funds, and to let you know what can be accomplished even in times of ongoing violence, we share the second annual report with you. We believe it demonstrates the resilience of Haitians: their innate capacity to heal and return to their true nature. …
Read MoreMy trip to Haiti – January 2026
If you assume that it is easy to plan a trip to Haiti, you are mistaken. None of the international airlines fly to Haiti, and there are only two Haitian Airlines that make the trip from Miami to Cap Haitian. One of these airlines also goes directly to Les Cayes. To make reservations is another…
Read MoreOur First Annual Report
2024 is the first year that Haitian Connection is publishing an Annual Report. We want to be transparent and show our donors and supporters what can be accomplished with minimal funds. The theme for this past year and for the Annual report is, Haiti will not perish – Ayiti pap peri.
Read MoreHaiti is complicated. Saving it doesn’t have to be.
Editorial by THE HAITIAN TIMES, OCT. 03, 2022 John A. Carroll, MD, reposted this article on his blog at http://www.haitianhearts.org on July 8, 2024. The international community is gaslighting Haiti, literally and figuratively. We all know it, and we all need to stop the pretenses if Haiti is to pick up where it left off in…
Read MoreHaiti Travel – June/July 2022
Haiti will not perish! The title of the book by Michael Deibert kept replaying itself like a consistent mantra during my recent visit to Jeremie/Haiti, a place that I had lived and worked in for 23 years, until Covid and the mounting insecurity forced me to return to Chicago. I took a good while before…
Read MoreEarthquake Follow-Up #4
Most of the emergency aid organizations have left Jeremie already, since it is almost 2 months after the earthquake. But little has really improved for the population in the hardest hit areas of the earthquake devastation. The work becomes consistently more difficult because the needs remain so numerous while the situation in the country becomes…
Read MoreEarthquake Follow-Up #3
Dear Friends and Supporters, It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I write this follow-up. Because of your incredible generosity, we are able to do small things to lighten the load for the victims of this earthquake. First, I would like to give a summary of the damage that this disaster has caused…
Read MoreEarthquake Follow-Up #2
Dear Friends and supporters of Haitian Connection, It has now been over two weeks since the earthquake hit the Grand’Anse and two other departments in Haiti. Before I give you an update, I want to thank you with a deep sense of gratitude for all of your generous donations to enable Haitian Connection to continue…
Read MoreEarthquake Follow-up #1
Dear friends and supporter of Haitian Connection, It has been a full week now since a 7.2 magnitude Earthquake struck the southwestern part of Haiti, leaving much damage and loss of life in its path. The country was already facing a food security crisis, compounded by high fuel prices, and the closing of transportation corridors…
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