Walk alongside HAPI.
Meaningful partnership takes many forms. Join the Haitian leaders and communities creating care, learning, and opportunity close to home.
Explore the ways
There is more than one way to walk alongside.
HAPI does not offer a traditional volunteer program. These are practical ways to stand with local leadership and help the work continue.
Support Care Close to Home
Give during this season’s campaign to sustain the people and everyday systems behind care in Mizak.
Give now →Become a sustaining supporter
A monthly gift gives HAPI dependable support for health, education, and economic opportunity throughout the year.
Explore monthly giving →Bring your group into partnership
Invite your church, circle, class, or community group to learn about HAPI and explore a lasting connection.
Start a conversation →Leave a legacy of hope
Consider including HAPI in your estate plan or another legacy gift that helps this work endure.
Explore planned giving →Learn before you act.
Good partnership begins with listening. These books, films, and essays offer different perspectives on Haiti, community leadership, and the unintended consequences of aid. Inclusion does not mean HAPI endorses every conclusion.
Start here
A useful church or small group study on how helping can honor local strengths.
An engaging introduction to Paul Farmer’s work and questions of health equity.
A study of rural Haitian organizing, cooperation, and collective action.
A family story introducing the Haitian Revolution through Soup Joumou.
More on charity and partnership
- Toxic Charity by Robert D. Lupton — provocative principles for examining the effects of charity.
- Travesty in Haiti by Timothy T. Schwartz — a critical, sometimes difficult account of foreign aid and missions in Haiti.
More on Haiti and Haitian voices
- Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat — a memoir of family, Haiti, and migration. Explore more of Danticat’s work.
- Eyes of the Heart by Jean-Bertrand Aristide — a political and theological perspective on poverty and globalization.
- Rubble Nation by Chris Herlinger and Paul Jeffrey — stories and photographs following Haiti’s 2010 earthquake.
Watch a documentary
The Agronomist, directed by Jonathan Demme, portrays Haitian journalist Jean Dominique and Michèle Montas through decades of Haitian history.
Follow ongoing writing on Haiti
Haitian Hearts — Peoria to Port-au-Prince by physician John A. Carroll offers regular posts on Haiti’s history, health care, and current events.
Let’s begin a conversation.
If your group has an idea for partnership or you would like to learn more, we would welcome hearing from you.
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