Be Part of the Solu­tion for Haiti:

Make a Dif­fer­ence in Half an Hour a Week

Overview

Haitians often invoke the proverb “men anpil, chay pa lou”: many hands make the load light. Haiti’s human rights prob­lems are severe, but expe­ri­ence shows that col­lec­tive efforts by Amer­i­cans and oth­ers in pow­er­ful coun­tries can make a real dif­fer­ence. Know­ing that peo­ple in pow­er­ful coun­tries sup­port them pro­vides hope to polit­i­cal pris­on­ers and con­fi­dence to grass­roots orga­niz­ers in Haiti. They appre­ci­ate sus­tained involve­ment, because they know from expe­ri­ence that change will not come from the Her­culean efforts of a few, but from more mod­est but per­sis­tent efforts of many.

The Insti­tute for Jus­tice & Democ­racy in Haiti (IJDH) invites you to join many other hands to sup­port jus­tice in Haiti through its Half-Hour for Haiti pro­gram. Once or twice a month, we dis­trib­ute an action that can have a con­crete impact on human rights in Haiti to our email list and post it on our web­site. The actions can usu­ally be done any­time over the next week, and in less than 30 min­utes. Some actions are from IJDH, some from other orga­ni­za­tions. The actions include tele­phone, email and letter-writing cam­paigns, peti­tions, and occa­sion­ally read­ing espe­cially infor­ma­tive reports or articles.

We under­stand that find­ing time for one more activ­ity in busy sched­ules is a chal­lenge, so we try to make it as easy as pos­si­ble, by pro­vid­ing rel­e­vant back­ground infor­ma­tion, as well as form let­ters, advo­cacy sug­ges­tions and talk­ing points.

Take Action

• 852 to go! Please Sign The Online Peti­tion For Hait­ian Fam­ily Reuni­fi­ca­tion Before May 1 Dead­line! — April 25, 2012
• Please SIGN the Peti­tion NOW Urg­ing Pres­i­dent Obama to Expe­dite Hait­ian Fam­ily Reuni­fi­ca­tion ! — Feb­ru­ary 2, 2012
• Haiti’s “unnat­ural dis­as­ter” ( by Mar­jorie Pritchard, Boston.com) — Jan­u­ary 12, 2012
• Half-Hour for Haiti Action Alert: Ask UN to Stand Up for Hait­ian Cholera Vic­tims’ Human Rights on Human Rights Day! — Decem­ber 7, 2011
• Half-Hour for Haiti Action Alert: Novem­ber 28, 2011 Take Action to Urge Pres­i­dent Obama to Cre­ate the Hait­ian Fam­ily Reuni­fi­ca­tion Pro­gram Now! — Novem­ber 28, 2011
• UN Hit With Cash Demand Over Haiti Cholera (Al Jazeera) — Novem­ber 9, 2011
• Half Hour for Haiti: Evic­tion Threat for Makeshift Camp in Haiti — Sep­tem­ber 20, 2011
• Half Hour for Haiti: Fear of Evic­tions for Two Hun­dred Fam­i­lies — Sep­tem­ber 19, 2011
• Tues­day, 7/26! Take Action in Jamaica Plain for Hait­ian Immi­grant Rights — July 25, 2011
• Show that Cal­i­for­ni­ans still care about earth­quake vic­tims in Haiti — July 18, 2011

Click here for the com­plete archive of Action Alerts