Get informed and mobilize for Haiti | Avvenire’s Campaign
An Awareness Campaign and an Avvenire Foundation project to lift Haiti out of poverty
Haiti, a Caribbean island, was once a dream travel destination. But today it is a country where 80 percent of its 9 million inhabitants live below the poverty line, in houses made of tin, wood and cardboard, on less than two dollars a day.
Maddalena Boschetti, a fidei donum lay missionary, already several years ago, from the village of Mawouj told us about one of the poorest, most remote and degraded rural areas of Haiti.
“Life here is difficult; there is no electricity or drinking water. To drink, you get supplies from springs about a half-hour walk away; to wash and to wash there is rainwater collected in cisterns. And cholera makes life even harder.”
Adding to the misery are natural disasters, including the devastating 2010 earthquake that killed 250,000 people and Hurricane Matthew, which swept over the island in 2016 with fierce gusts of wind.
It has been 15 years since that earthquake, and everything seems standing still, including promises of aid and rebuilding. Instead, violence has increased, along with the presence of bandits and gangs and an unstable political situation.
For this reason, the missionaries ask not to forget the Haitians, and with them the ability to be merciful to those who suffer and carry on their existence with great hardship, albeit with dignity.
From Italy, the Avvenire Foundation will support the Sons of Haiti Project, and throughout 2025, articles, reports, and podcasts about the country will be published in the newspaper and on the website. There will also be a docufilm; in addition, children and young people on the island will make their own story through photos that will then flow into a calendar and an exhibition.
Material that will be made available to schools, associations and those who want to inform themselves and help support the orphanage “La Maison Des Anges” through a fundraiser.
Because the future starts with the children and Haiti needs to live again.
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