Thanks to the Generosity of Our Friends We Can Offer Special Gifts!

We are grateful for any amount you choose to donate, but are pleased to offer gifts for those donating at the $150, $300, $443 and $600 levels. The first two levels of giving represent approximately half of the average US tax rebate for an individual or family respectively. Or please consider making a symbolic gesture of solidarity by matching an individual victim’s contribution of $443 – over one year’s living expenses for each victim and no more than a few days pay for most of us. Or consider the impact of a donation of $600 -- which will keep the BAI fighting another day to keep the doors of justice open for children who want to go to school, for political prisoners who want to be reunited with their families, and for victims of political persecution who want to have their day in court.

Be a Witness to Justice in Haiti

For your donation of $150 or more, Christine Cynn and Harriet Hirshorn offer a DVD of their award-winning documentary, Pot Make Sonje (Whoever Bears the Scar Remembers), which tells the story of the Raboteau victims' fight for justice in Haiti. 

Click on any of the pictures below to see video excerpts from the documentary:

“Pote Mak Sonje: The Raboteau Trial explores how a community mobilized against formidable obstacles - a long history of impunity, corruption, lack of infrastructure, extreme poverty, and illiteracy - to bring about the best criminal prosecution ever in Haiti, and one of the most significant human rights trials in the Western hemisphere in the last 20 years. Weaving emotional interviews and extraordinary trial footage with more abstract lyrical images, the documentary shows the significance of the trial for Haiti and for the victims of a massacre who finally confront their attackers.” For more information on the DVD, click here .

Be an Avocat International

In recognition of donations of $300 or more, Wadner Pierre, an award-winning Haitian photo journalist, will add an original signed photograph of his work documenting the plight of Haiti’s poor. Your photograph will be encased in a metal frame handcrafted especially for this fundraiser by noted Haitian metal artist, Romens.

Please be sure to indicate your preferred photo!  If you write a check, please write your preference on the memo line (Photo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6).  If you contribute through PayPal, please send us an e-mail with your preference (development@ijdh.org), or call us at 707-824-8515 with your choice, or indicate a phone number or e-mail we can contact you at on the PayPal Billing Information page. 

Be an Honorary Member of the Association des Victimes de Raboteau

If you donate $443 or more, you will be linked with a counterpart from the Raboteau Victims Assocation (AVR), who will send you a photo and personal thank-you note in addition to the DVD and framed photo signed by Wadner Pierre.     
    
Please see their messages below: 

Be a Poto Mitan (Centerpost) of Justice

For your donations of $600 or more you will also receive a signed copy of Randall Robinson’s book, ” An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President or Peter Hallward’s, ” Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment.

"In An Unbroken Agony, bestselling author and social justice advocate Randall Robinson explores the heroic and tragic history of Haiti. He traces the history of a people forced across the Atlantic in chains; recounting their spectacularly successful slave revolt against France and the two hundred years of reprisals that would follow. The fate of Aristide's presidency is tied to this people's century-long quest for self-determination and his removal from power exposes the apartheid-like forces that frustrate these aspirations even today." For more information on the book and Randall Robinson click here.

"Damning the Flood unfinchingly examines the head questions many of us ask about the struggles of the Lavalas movement to implement its progressive social program and the efforts of the U.S. and other powerful countries, and a hostile Haitian elite to stop the program. After a brief summary of Haitian history from the Revolution to 1990, Hallward carefully examines the advances of the Lavalas movement- especially electoral victories in 1990, 1995 and 2000 - and the setbacks- especially the coups d'etat of 1991 and 2004. The focal point of his analysis is the century of Haitian people who are poor and Haitian elites, supported by the media and organizations they control, and the powerful countries they cultivate." For more information click here.

Please be sure to indicate your preferred book!  If you write a check, please write your preference on the memo line (Robinson or Hallward).  If you contribute through PayPal, please send us an e-mail with your preference (development@ijdh.org), or call us at 707-824-8515 with your choice, or indicate a phone number or e-mail we can contact you at on the PayPal Billing Information page.