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Please Join Us on International Women's Day to Celebrate & Support the Re-Building of Haiti!

First-Hand Narratives, Music, Dance & Art

This event is being organized by the Committee for the Dignity of Haiti (CDH), a coalition of primarily student organizations from the University of Massachusetts Amherst founded in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. We will be holding a community fundraiser on March 8th for Haiti at the Bangs Community Center in Amherst, MA.  ALL PROCEEDS will benefit the Foundation Honor for Haiti (FONHOH).  I am performing special music for the event. 

Your donation would go towards supporting an exciting project to build a kindergarten through 6th grade school in Lagoun-Plato Santral, a rural area with lush vegetation northeast of Port-au-Prince.  The project, which is now under way, is the initiative of FONHOH (www.fonhoh.org), which is an integral member of CDH, and has already acquired the land for the project.

FONHOH is an established grassroots organization that has been working in Haiti since 2005, and has established a US branch in the Amherst area since 2007 to support their work in Haiti. Prior to the earthquake, the organization shipped a substantial quantity of school supplies, school furnishing, books and other materials donated by local institutions such as Staples, the Jones Public Library, and the North Congregational Church.  Education is FONHOH’s main area of intervention.  Given the fact that 90% of the schools in Haiti were affected as a result of the earthquake, thus leaving 3 million children out of school according to the current statistics, the construction of the school is all the more urgent.  Please join us to support FONHOH's  mission  of building a K-6 school and to demonstrate that indeed, "A New Haiti is Possible"!