Imagine Haitian

ImagaineHaitian.org will be one of the beneficiaries of the Alternative Giving Fair sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Church

of Bloomington, Indiana. The fair offers people the opportunity to donate to a variety of local and international charities in place

of buying traditional gifts. Those who donate to ImagineHaitian.org will receive one of the two cards shown below, which they may

give to the person in whose name they made a donation. If you are interested in participating in the Alternative Giving Fair, please

contact imaginehaitian@gmail.com for more details.

Gonaives, 5 July 2009 — Nearly one year ago, Hurricanes Hanna and Ike triggered devastating floods and mudslides in this coastal city, the capital of Haiti’s Artibonite Department. Now, Partners for a Haitian Biodiesel Industry (PINHAB in French) has launched a tree-planting program to fight Haiti’s rampant deforestation, which magnifies the damage from tropical storms in this impoverished Caribbean nation.

PINHAB represents a partnership between three organizations: Eben-Ezer Mission of Gonaives, Haitian American Agro Industries, and ImagineHaitian.org. The three groups first joined together in August of 2008 to begin planting oil-producing trees at Eben-Ezer Mission with the goal of manufacturing biodiesel from the trees. However, their efforts were interrupted by the hurricanes, which flooded the tree nurseries and caused the relocation of hundreds of local families to the mission grounds.

Read the full press release (MS Word Doc).