About
OUR APPROACH
How to Unite a Fractured Country?
There is a popular Haitian saying, “Lespwa fè viv,” which means hope brings life. We use hope as strategy and dreams as catalysts for change. Hope makes living and participating in change doable. We start by asking communities, Haiti’s “poto mitan” (central pillars), what their dreams and hopes are. We ask how we can work with them for themselves; this leads to community-set priorities and agendas and proactive community-led planning.
“Community Leadership is the driving force for effective, sustainable change and uniting a fractured nation”
Marie-Rose Romain Murphy
HCFN President
Our Manifesto
We are the Haiti Community Foundation.
We believe in community-led development.
We believe in Haiti and invest in Haiti,
Not just our money, not just our time,
But the best of ourselves:
Our hearts, our spirits and our souls.
We bring our communities together,
Transcending barriers of race, color, class, gender and politics,
To make each of us and all of us, stronger,
Stronger as citizens, stronger as leaders, stronger as communities.
Stronger as regions and stronger as one nation.
We are building a future where all are welcome to sit at the table,
and forge Haiti into a strong and independent nation open to all.
Haiti, too often cast as the “poorest country in the Western Hemisphere!
Haiti is More
In 1804, Not only did Haiti changed the course of the history of the world by becoming the first Black country independent and the first successful slave revolution, it supported anti-slavery and anti-colonnial revolts in many other countries.
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