American Friends Service Committee - 2010 Haiti
Social Services
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With funding from AFSC, 4,600 square meters of plastic sheeting for tents will make its way to Haiti. The sheeting will provide emergency shelter for at lea...
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AFSC is a Quaker organization devoted to service, development, and peace programs throughout the world. Our work is based on the belief in the worth of every person, and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice. AFSC in Haiti For several decades, AFSC operated a multi-faceted development program in the remote Grand’Anse region in southwest Haiti. In a rural area, we constructed the first health clinic to serve some 40,000 people, trained village health promoters, and conducted adult literacy classes. Economic endeavors included reforestation with fruit trees, providing equipment for fishing families, establishing cooperative stores to sell commodities at fair prices, and supporting the raising and proper care of indigenous Creole pigs and goats. AFSC turned these projects over to local leadership recently.
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Address in Haiti: Rue Fougère, Delmas 71, Port au Prince, Haiti
Phone Number: 246-2540
Headquarters Address: 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, , United States
Acronym: AFSC
Contact Name in Haiti: Rév. Andris RICHE
Email: afscinfo @afsc.org
Web Site: http://www.afsc.org/haiti/
Areas of Activity : Agriculture, Health, Humanitarian Assistance
Year founded : 4th October 1996
Funded By : Founded by Quakers in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian war victims, AFSC's work attracts the support and partnership of people of many races, religions, and cultures.
Organization Details:
The American Friends Service Committee carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world. FSC community works to transform conditions and relationships both in the world and in ourselves, which threaten to overwhelm what is precious in human beings. We nurture the faith that conflicts can be resolved nonviolently, that enmity can be transformed into friendship, strife into cooperation, poverty into well-being, and injustice into dignity and participation.
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