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Konbit Pou Ayiti/KONPAY (Working Together for Haiti) (DISTRIBUTIONS & more)

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Website: http://www.konpay.org/splash/

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Mission: http://www.konpay.org/blog

Konbit Pou Ayiti/KONPAY (Working Together for Haiti) is a Haitian-American not-for-profit organization focused on building sustainable livelihoods for the communities in southeast Haiti. We work at a local level, while collaborating with other NGO’s dedicated to empowering and improving the lives of the people of Haiti.

About Haiti KONPAY

KONPAY was founded in November 2004 in Jacmel, Haiti by Melinda Miles, former co-director of the Quixote Center, and Haitian-American Joe Duplan. Miles and Duplan decided to move to Haiti when many were fleeing during the unrest following the coup d'etat of February 29, 2004, because they felt they could be more effective as partners in solidarity if they were on the ground in Haiti. With a grant from the Public Welfare Foundation, KONPAY began distributing emergency assistance to human rights, especially women's organizations, and established safe houses in Port-au-Prince.

KONPAY offered major financial support to the Commission of Women Victims for Victims (KOFAVIV), a group working with rape victims in the capital’s notorious slum areas. KONPAY also began supporting a primary school for at-risk and extremely poor children in Port-au-Prince’s Martissant neighborhood. KONPAY’s sponsorship of the KOFAVIV project ended in 2006 when leaders of the project joined with Anne Sosin to create Haiti Rights Vision/VIDWA. KONPAY continued to support the Martissant school until the end of the 2005-2006 school year with periodic grants to pay teachers’ salaries.

KONPAY partnered with the Collective for the Artists of Jacmel, which promotes the artisanry of this world renowned city, the capitol of Carnival. In the U.S. we promoted and sold artesana, produced a cultural education tour of CFAJ artists in New England schools and represented CFAJ at the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market in 2007. CFAJ ran a program for thirty disadvantaged school children, teaching them embroidery, papier-mache, crochet, painting, drawing and other artisana. They also collaborated on marketing and sales efforts, including holding exhibitions at Carnival in February, and during the May 1st and December festivities.

KONPAY has focused the majority of its time and resources on coalition-building and direct assistance projects for the environment. In September 2005, KONPAY brought together forty grassroots and organizational leaders to determine an agenda for the environment. After participating in Alternative Gifts International's gathering of international agencies working to reforest Haiti, KONPAY began planning the National Environment Initiative, a landmark event which gathered grassroots leaders, national non-governmental organizations and international agencies to share information and build relationships in Jacmel. In 2007, as a result of the meeting, the Haitian National Coalition for the Environment was launched with KONPAY as coordinator. Please learn more about the Coalition by visiting www.haitienvironment.org.

On January 12, 2010, our lives changed forever. The world come to a stop
when an earthquake shook Haiti to its knees. With many other
non-governmental organizations working in the country, the Haiti
Response Coalition was formed to respond to what was not being provided by the inter/national disaster relief and recovery mechanism: the distribution water, food, medical aid, and shelter; a place marker in meetings with the United Nations, USAID, World Food Program, and others; and planning and collaboration on building a new country as articulated by Haitian communities. KONPAY continues to support advocacy and aid distribution to communities in and around Port-au-Prince and Jacmel. Please visit our main blog page for a history of our work.





This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

Notes:

9/26/10

Fields of grass, soup kitchens at risk in Haiti
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20100926/cb-haiti-fields-of-grass/?
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Miles' group, KONPAY, provides environmental and food support to the quake-ravaged southeast through tree planting, seed distribution and other programs. The group quickly spent the modest donations it received for immediate earthquake relief, and is now struggling to fund its $200,000-a-year budget, she said.
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Haiti Post-Earthquake Activities in Jacmel
Wed, 02/17/2010 - 12:02 — melindayiti
Community Assessments: The post-earthquake work in Jacmel has followed the same basic process as in Port-au-Prince. Joe Duplan, Guypson Catalis and Agronomist Cheler Pierre have formed a core animation team and have met with community leaders to perform assessments of community needs in a dozen tent communities and temporary settlements. Volunteers Jeff Rogers and Michael Adams have also helped.

The areas covered by the KONPAY team include:
• Rue St. Anne, Jacmel
• Oban, between Cyvadier and Raymond les Bains
• Anba Zoranje
• Zoranje
• Cap Lamandou
• Magloire Ambroise
• Cap Rouge

melindayiti's blog Read more.

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Volunteer in Jacmel, Haiti!
Wed, 02/17/2010 - 10:32 — melindayiti
Haiti KONPAY has identified some ways that we could use volunteers on the ground, and cofounder Joe Duplan has procured some large army tents to set up a base for volunteers in Cyvadier. Here are some of the ways we could use volunteers, ideally with Creole language skills and who can fund themselves or find funding:
• Structural engineers
• Manual laborers
• Community Organizers
• An individual with accounting skills who can help with the day-to-day management of distributions and expenditures
• A skilled communicator who can help to record and report on the activities and situation on the ground, to assist KONPAY US staff and the Haiti Response Coalition to get the word out

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2/17/10 FOOD DISTRIBUTION & more
http://www.konpay.org/node/491

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