Haiti Orphans & Education Fund

Orphans International has disbanded all programs in Haiti.

”Earlier this week, two journalists were shot dead and their bodies set on fire in Cité Soleil, on the outskirts of the capital Port-au-Prince.”

“The local offices of the UN Food Programme were attacked on Thursday.”

Haiti riots: Calls for calm after anti-government violence

Haiti riots: Calls for calm after anti-government violence Protests rage after an end to government subsidies sends fuel prices soaring.

Kidnapping is widespread and victims regularly include U.S. citizens. Kidnappers may use sophisticated planning or take advantage of unplanned opportunities, and even convoys have been attacked. Kidnapping cases often involve ransom negotiations and U.S. citizen victims have been physically harmed during kidnappings. Victim’s families have paid thousands of dollars to rescue their family members.

Violent crime, such as armed robbery and carjacking, is common. Travelers are sometimes followed and violently attacked and robbed shortly after leaving the Port-au-Prince international airport. Robbers and carjackers also attack private vehicles stuck in heavy traffic congestion and often target lone drivers, particularly women. As a result, the U.S. Embassy requires its personnel to use official transportation to and from the airport.

Protests, demonstrations, tire burning, and roadblocks are frequent, unpredictable, and can turn violent. The U.S. government is extremely limited in its ability to provide emergency services to U.S. citizens in Haiti – assistance on site is available only from local authorities (Haitian National Police and ambulance services). Local police generally lack the resources to respond effectively to serious criminal incidents.

U.S. government personnel are discouraged from walking in Port-au-Prince and other neighborhoods. Only adult family members over the age of 18 are permitted to accompany U.S. government employees assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince. U.S. government personnel in Haiti are prohibited from:

Haiti Travel Advisory The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Level 4 Travel Health Notice for Haiti, indicating a very high level of COVID-19 in the country. Your risk of contracting COVID-19 and developing severe symptoms may be lower if you are fully vaccinated with an FDA authorized vacc...

17 US missionaries abducted by Haitian gang: Report Local officials said the missionaries were taken from a bus on its way to the airport to drop some members off in the island nation’s capital Port-au-Prince.

U.S. Haiti envoy quits over 'inhumane' deportations.

US Haiti envoy quits over 'inhumane' deportations Daniel Foote says US policy on Haiti is "flawed" and sending migrants back is "counterproductive".

Deportees land in Port-au-Prince: ‘Nobody told us we were going back to Haiti’ — The Washington Post Many hadn’t seen their country in years, and now spoke better Spanish or Portuguese than Haitian Creole.

Haiti President Jovenel Moïse killed in attack at Home. Orphans International ceased all programs due to the violence. We look forward to being back on the ground when stability is achieved! We love Haiti and her people and cry at the state of affairs today.

Haiti President Jovenel Moïse killed in attack at home Jovenel Moïse is shot dead and the first lady injured by gunmen in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

Remembering 1994 in Gonaïves.

We have met Dr. Pape - he is an incredible human being.

Covid-19 Trickles Into Haiti: ‘This Monster Is Coming Our Way’ The virus has been slow to hit the country. But as laid-off Haitians return from hard-hit areas, doctors are preparing furiously for an outbreak they fear will strain the nation’s threadbare health care system.

Santa Claus or one of the most intellectual leaders of Haitian history?

Orphans International Worldwide first arrived in Haiti in 1999. We carried out projects in Gonaïve, Jacmel, and Leoganne.

‘It became part of life’: how Haiti curbed cholera Haiti’s remarkable recovery from a cholera outbreak that pushed it to the brink offers vital lessons in dealing with a public health crisis

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U.N. peacekeepers fathered, then abandoned, hundreds of children in Haiti, report says — The Washington Post “They put a few coins in your hands and drop a baby in you," one Haitian told researchers.