The Humanitarian Aid complex in Haiti is broken. Billions of foreign aid dollars spent over several decades have yielded few lasting results in the country.

There are many reasons for this. And language is just one very small part of the solution. But it’s a part that’s in our control.

When you speak Haitian Creole, a few things happen:

The richness of the country and of Haitians opens up to you in a much broader way.

Your relationships and friendships gain incredible depth.

You do your job better – more efficiently and with greater respect for the communities that have invited you.

You become MUCH more likely to invest in local leadership and involve the community in your decision-making. This makes your initiatives context-specific, more sustainable, and more likely to succeed.

You demonstrate to Haitians (and funders) that you and your organization care enough about lasting results and relationship-building to learn the language.

Members of the HaitiHub community have a shared commitment to these outcomes and a shared love of the language. (Have you heard a good Creole proverb lately? What’s not to love?!)

We represent a shift away from NGO “business as usual.”
We need to cooperate with each other. We need to involve Haitians. We want to joke with our friends in Creole. We want to connect deeply with the people we meet.

And we would love for you to join us.

HaitiHub: Kote n’ap mete tèt ansanm! (Where we are putting our heads together!)