Cultivating Change in Haiti Redefining Recovery

1. Cultivating Change in Haiti Redefining Recovery Advancing Human Rights Is the Work of Many Joining Hands

2. 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 Advancing Human Rights Is the Work of Many Joining Hands

3. 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? Advancing Human Rights Is the Work of Many Joining Hands

4. Who Was Being Left Out? • People in rural areas • People in informal urban camps • Unaccompanied children • Women in urban camps Advancing Human Rights Is the Work of Many Joining Hands

5. 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 Advancing Human Rights Is the Work of Many Joining Hands

6. How 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 Advancing Human Rights Is the Work of Many Joining Hands

7. Goals of the Work Support a strategy of recovery built on the principles of empowerment, partnership, and engagement of civil society. Advancing Human Rights Is the Work of Many Joining Hands

8. Papaye Peasant Movement (MPP) • Founded in 1973 • National grassroots movement empowering farmers • 4,500 collective grassroots groups • 60,000 members, including adult men, women, and youth Advancing Human Rights Is the Work of Many Joining Hands

9. MPP’s 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 Advancing Human Rights Is the Work of Many Joining Hands

10. Eco-Village MPP’s eco-village is a model for relocating people displaced by the earthquake and providing them with sustainable rural livelihoods. Advancing Human Rights Is the Work of Many Joining Hands

11. Open land Advancing Human Rights is the Work of Many Joining Hands

12. Familes Advancing Human Rights is the Work of Many Joining Hands

13. Dunel Advancing Human Rights is the Work of Many Joining Hands

14. Lay out of village Advancing Human Rights is the Work of Many Joining Hands

15. Farming Advancing Human Rights is the Work of Many Joining Hands

16. Water cistern Advancing Human Rights is the Work of Many Joining Hands

17. Alternative technologies Advancing Human Rights is the Work of Many Joining Hands

18. Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, MPP's Founder "The eco-village is part of work to sustainably decentralize Haiti. We would like to use this as a model to create other communities." Advancing Human Rights Is the Work of Many Joining Hands

19. Progress in the Eco-Village • 1st eco-village is complete • Construction of 2 and 3 has begun • Goal is 6 villages; 10 families each Advancing Human Rights Is the Work of Many Joining Hands

20. UUSC-UUA Haiti Volunteer Program • [Add photo(s) from your delegation] Advancing Human Rights Is the Work of Many Joining Hands

21. Upcoming Haiti Volunteer Service-Learning Trip • May 25–June 1, 2013 (register by March 24, 2013): $1,350 • For updates, visit uucsj.org/programs Advancing Human Rights Is the Work of Many Joining Hands

22. Other Ways to Get Involved • Take part in advocacy initiatives with UUSC • Become a member of UUSC Advancing Human Rights Is the Work of Many Joining Hands