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Cherica, two years and six months old washes her hands in front of her grandmother's home in Cite Soleil slum, a district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery/ Concern WorldwideCherica, two years and six months old washes her hands in front of her grandmother's home in Cite Soleil slum, a district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery/ Concern Worldwide

Help families in Haiti recover from disasters

£36 could provide three emergency water tanks with soap for a community, to prevent the spread of diseases after a natural disaster.

Every pound you donate will go towards supporting Concern’s work in Haiti and wherever the need is greatest

In Haiti, climate disasters, conflict and instability have kept families in a cycle of poverty for generations. Help us reach more people with the assistance they need to stay healthy and find secure livelihoods.

Right now, one in four people in Haiti are acutely hungry, and over half the population live in poverty. The rising levels of violence and impact of regular natural disasters, including tropical storms, flooding and earthquakes, hits the poorest people the hardest.

While we continue to help people rebuild lives and homes after crises, we also work to future-proof communities from subsequent shocks. You can help people living in challenging conditions to support their families and take steps out of hunger and extreme poverty.

Will you support our work to help people in Haiti stay healthy and prosper?

Facts & Stats

We’ve been working in Haiti since 1994

  • We helped communities in Haiti rebuild their lives after the major earthquake in 2010 and still work in the poorest parts of the country
  • Around 60% of people in Haiti live below the poverty line
  • In August 2021, our emergency response helped 8,200 people recover from the effects of a 7.2 magnitude earthquake
Cherica (2) washes her hands in front of her grandmother's home in Cite Soleil, a district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery/ Concern Worldwide
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£36 could provide three emergency water tanks with soap for a community, to prevent the spread of diseases after a natural disaster.

Four ways your donation can help people in Haiti

Rosette holds her son John Kelly, with husband Pierre and son Isaac. Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery / Concern Worldwide / Haiti (2021)
Rosette holds her son John Kelly, with husband Pierre and son Isaac. Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery / Concern Worldwide / Haiti (2021)

Just one week after attending a Concern-run soap-making session, Rosette, 34, started her own soap business in Cité Soleil. Her family had been going hungry after lockdowns prevented her husband, Pierre, from working. Rosette’s soap saved the day - providing much-needed income to keep her whole family healthy and well-fed, and helping to prevent the spread of diseases, including coronavirus, in her community too.

In 2020, Rosette’s was one of 1,159 extremely poor families in Haiti whose livelihoods we helped improve through business skills training, mentoring and grants to start small businesses.

I want my little business to grow up to serve the Haitian people and to give jobs in the community.

Rosette

How your donation is used

81.9%
Overseas programmes

Almost 82 pence in every pound donated goes towards our emergency response and long-term development programmes, working together with people living in the most difficult situations to bring about lasting change to lives, livelihoods and communities.

Asma Begum (37) and her husband Abdul with their three daughters Lamia (18), Sadia (16) and Maria (5) and their grandmother Kulsum Begum (72) started CRAAIN in 2020. Asma Begum started as a lead farmer, received training and seeds. Before, she did agri activities but wasn’t very successful. She had received one ring composter from the local gov but no training on how to use it. As a lead farmer, she has supported 400 households in this area. She used to rely on her husband but is now totally reliable.

  • 14.2%

    Fundraising

    This is money we spend to raise more funds for our overseas work.

  • 3.5%

    Policy, advocacy and campaigns

    We invest money to campaign, lobby governments, run petitions and put pressure on decision-makers to tackle the underlying causes of extreme poverty and push for change.

  • 0.4%

    Governance

    These are funds we spend to ensure that Concern is compliant and adheres to the highest standards.

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Concern staff arrive for a workshop on making liquid and solid soap in Cite Soleil slum, a district of Port-au-Prince. Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery

Help families recover from disaster

  • £35 could help people in Haiti access training to start a small business and provide for their family

  • Around 60% of people in Haiti live below the poverty line

  • 4.4 million Haitians are facing hunger

  • In August 2021, our emergency response helped 8,200 people recover from the effects of a 7.2 magnitude earthquake

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