Communities
In December of 2020, Home Roots Foundation as a grassroots organization, started meeting with local groups and nonprofits. The aim is to collaborate or partner to help improve self-advocacy and make their projects more effective. We meet with local officials, associations, and other stake holders, typically by invitation, and help determine how to best bring about positive changes in the community.
In December of 2020, Home Roots Foundation as a grassroots organization, started meeting with local groups and nonprofits. The aim is to collaborate or partner to help improve self-advocacy and make their projects more effective. We meet with local officials, associations, and other stake holders, typically by invitation, and help determine how to best bring about positive changes in the community.
For our first trip, we drove over 7 hours from the capital Port-au-Prince to go to Jean Rabel to meet with Organisation des Planteurs du bas Nord-Oust (OPBNO), an organization of farmers in the Northwest part of Haiti. We learned of the dire need for new equipment, roads, transportation, and the lack of basic services and resources. The significant need for change was obvious when we saw the deplorable condition of the public or “national” school.
Home Roots Foundation will work with this group to help them with advocacy and acquiring new equipment as they requested.
Our next trip was to Belle Fontaine which was maybe about
1.5 to 2 hours away. However, the roads were so horrible it took us 4 hours to get there and 4 hours to return. We met with the peasant organizations Federation Groupman Plante Bel Fonten (FGPB) and Konbit Organizasyon Peyizan Devlopman Belfonten (KOPDEB).
These residents inform us that the number one need for the area is—predictably–to fix the roads. We found out some students walk 3 hours to school! They next needs were for agriculture and health services. The organizations made previous attempts to work with city hall to improve the areaand make the situation more bearable, but these attempts were unfruitful.
Sodo is a commune in the Center Depart- ment of Haiti. In 2015, its population was at 34,885 inhabitants. In Sodo, we work with a church, a small school, a pastor, and a wo- men’s organization. Okay is a commune and seaport in the South Department of Haiti, with a population of 71,236. We first
visited in the aftermath of the 2021 earthquake with another organization to
bring supplies and have connected with other organizations in Okay.
Supporters JustPax Fund, Peace Development Fund, Tawingo Fund, CPPS Heritage Mission Fund .
Collaborators Street Business School, Business for a Better Society, We Make Change, Taproot Plus, Matchable, VolunteerMatch, Idealist, SCORE, MicroMentors, Little Big Fund, Athari Group, Nonprofit Works
