Globals For Solidarité
ABOUT US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to aid grass-root organziations/activists in Haiti and to educate students on global affairs. We work to promote community building abroad and here in boulder.
Key components of our mission:
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educate ourselves and our community about political issues in Haiti that affect innocent civilians. (the role our government plays in these issues)
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We work with these victims in Haiti whom fight against the constant suppression.
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According to what these organizations need, we fundraise and collect donations constantly throughout the year.
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We also communicate with Haitians to see what sustainable projects we could implement to best accomidate their needs
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The end goal is not to go to Haiti, but to preserve a constant relationship with these people and to build life long connections between this world and theirs.
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We also will work to promote community building in boulder, to uphold our values in our own community and to live by the values we cherish as a club.
Brief Background Information
To completely understand the state of Haiti today, it is crucial to understand where Haiti has been and why is hasn’t been able to completely break free and independent. The overbearing poverty that consumes Haitians is harder to break free from than it seems. More than half of the people in Haiti don’t have access to clean water and 60% lack the access to the most basic and necessary health-care services. The leading cause for death in youth is malnutrition. With over 80% of people living below the poverty line, and with a dominant, small elite running the government and society, the middle class has been eliminated and the gap between the rich and poor is accentuated. The effects of this gap are prominent within the educational system, where 90% of all schools are privatized, costing $500/year for tuition. With minimum wage set at $3 a day (a wage influenced by the US corporations), schooling is not an option for most children. A Haitian elementary school teacher, Paulette, specified these statistics when sharing that only 9 out of 100 schools in Haiti are public. This is not only unjust due to the lack of access for the poor, yet also goes against the Haitian constitution that states education is provided for all. The few children that have the blessing of attending school don’t have the money to further their education to higher levels. With this overwhelming blockage, how is Haiti supposed to become self-sufficient without access to education?
Related Articles
The success of the organizations we support can be read about more in depth at the following sites:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/08/world/americas/urban-oasis-offers-hope-haiti/
