As 2022 comes to an end, please make your tax-deductible donation at www.haitiemergencyrelief.org
 
Checks can be made payable to and mailed to: 
Haiti Emergency Relief/EBSC
Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
c/o East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
P.O. Box 4670
Berkeley, CA 94704
 
This is a critical moment for Haiti. As the year 2022 comes to a close, people across the length and breadth of Haiti have been demonstrating to demand the ouster of the corrupt and illegitimate regime of Ariel Henry. The government has responded with brutal repression, including a series of massacres in poor and insurgent communities, and a campaign of targeted killings of grassroots activists. Henry has called for more foreign occupying troops to bolster his regime. Those responsible for the Lasalin massacre in 2018, where hundreds were killed, have never been prosecuted and instead have been empowered to commit more atrocities in other communities. And the Henry government has implemented an IMF-imposed structural adjustment plan, sending prices for fuel and food and other basic necessities soaring, creating large-scale food insecurity and a spiraling humanitarian crisis. A new outbreak of cholera is once again wreaking havoc on the population.
 
The Haiti Emergency Relief Fund has been standing with the popular movement in Haiti since our inception in 2004, following the coup that overthrew the democratically elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. We have maintained our solidarity through the deadly earthquake of 2010, the joyous return of President Aristide in 2011, the stolen elections of 2015 and 2016, the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Matthew in 2016, and the earthquake that struck the southern peninsula in August 2021.  
 
Now we are increasing our efforts in the wake of the remarkable resistance being shown daily by Haitians standing up to dictatorship, corruption, economic and social exclusion.
 
Your donations to Haiti Emergency Relief Fund go directly to grassroots organizations in Haiti that are helping people in hurricane-ravaged areas to access water, food and shelter, and to reconstruct their lives. Your funds will help sustain mobile health clinics, women’s agricultural cooperatives, and literacy programs in Haiti’s poorest communities. Your donations will help support the University of the Dr. Aristide Foundation (UNIFA), which now has over 4000 students and has just opened the doors to a world-class teaching hospital, so desperately needed right now in Haiti.  Your funds will also aid the growth of independent community-based media, so critical in a society where the rich control almost all sources of information.
 
Unlike the big NGOs, HERF has no paid staff and takes no cut. Volunteers do all the work, and every dollar we collect goes directly to Haitian organizations deeply rooted in their communities.
 
Your contribution supports the growth of the democratic movement in Haiti in the spirit of solidarity. We hope you will donate generously.
 

We thank you and wish you
the best for the New Year!

 

Haiti Emergency Relief Fund Board of Directors 
Walter Riley, Attorney at Law, Co-Chair
Sister Maureen Duignan, O.S.F., Co-Chair
Seth Donnelly, Educator and Long-Time Haiti Solidarity Activist
Nia Imara, Astronomer and Artist
Pierre Labossiere, Co-Founder, Haiti Action Committee
Marilyn Langlois, Human Rights and Community Advocate
Robert Roth, Educator and Co-Founder, Haiti Action Committee