cultivating change in haiti redefining recovery
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Cultivating Change in Haiti Redefining Recovery. What Happened?. Massive destruction; whole areas of Port-au-Prince leveled; ministries, hospitals, schools destroyed Over 230,000 deaths; hundreds of thousands of people displaced Botched emergency response. Questions UUSC Asked. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Cultivating Change in Cultivating Change in Haiti Haiti Redefining Redefining
Recovery Recovery
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What Happened? What Happened? • Massive
destruction; whole areas of Port-au-Prince leveled; ministries, hospitals, schools destroyed
• Over 230,000 deaths; hundreds of thousands of people displaced
• Botched emergency response
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Questions UUSC Asked• Who is getting assistance? Why? Why not?• Do people have access to former houses,
land, assets?• Who is organizing camps and services for
the displaced?• What protections are in place for vulnerable
populations?• Whose voice is heard in the recovery
planning? Whose is not?
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Who Was Being Left Who Was Being Left Out?Out?
• People in rural areas
• People in informal urban camps
• Unaccompanied children
• Women in urban camps
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What UUSC Did• Analyze the factors causing injustice• Identify excluded people• Identify grassroots groups working with those
populations • Ask these groups what they need, what they would like
to achieve, and how we can help• Work together with these partners to develop and
support programming
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How UUSC WorksHow UUSC Works• Partner with grassroots organizations on
the ground• Participate in Washington, D.C.,
advocacy coalitions• Mobilize our members to take action• Lead delegations of volunteers
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Goals of the WorkGoals of the Work
Support a strategy of recovery built on the principles of empowerment, partnership, and engagement of civil society.
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Papaye Peasant Papaye Peasant Movement (MPP)Movement (MPP)
• Founded in 1973• National grassroots
movement empowering farmers
• 4,500 collective grassroots groups
• 60,000 members, including adult men, women, and youth
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MPPMPP’’s Goalss Goals
• Help Haiti regain food security
• Contribute to sustainable natural-resource management
• Advocate for women's rights
• Promote alternative energies
• Build people-centered rural communities
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Eco-VillageEco-VillageMPP’s eco-village is a model for relocating people displaced by the earthquake and providing them with sustainable rural livelihoods.
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• Open land
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• Familes
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• Dunel
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• Lay out of village
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• Farming
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• Water cistern
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• Alternative technologies
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Chavannes Jean-Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, MPP's Baptiste, MPP's
FounderFounder"The eco-village is part of work to sustainably decentralize Haiti. We would like to use this as a model to create other communities."
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Progress in the Eco-Progress in the Eco-VillageVillage
• 1st eco-village is complete
• Construction of 2 and 3 has begun
• Goal is 6 villages; 10 families each
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UUSC-UUA Haiti UUSC-UUA Haiti Volunteer ProgramVolunteer Program
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Upcoming Haiti Volunteer Upcoming Haiti Volunteer Service-Learning TripService-Learning Trip
• May 25–June 1, 2013 (register by March 24, 2013): $1,350
• For updates, visit uucsj.org/programs
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Other Ways to Get Other Ways to Get InvolvedInvolved
• Take part in advocacy initiatives with UUSC
• Become a member of UUSC
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