The impact of the FOKAL Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund in 2021 and 2022
On August 14, 2021, a devastating earthquake shook the southern region of Haiti, leaving more than 2,200 people, and 12,200 wounded and destroying homes, livestock, and crops. Then came the tropical storm Grace a few days later, aggravating the devas...
August 23 : International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
In 1998, to pay tribute to those who at the end of the 18th century fought against colonization, slavery and racism on the territory that is now Haiti, UNESCO declared August 23 the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abo...
Zayed Award for Human Fraternity announces Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Queen Rania, and Haitian humanitarian organization FOKAL as 2022 honorees
The Zayed Award for Human Fraternity has today announced Their Majesties King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein and Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan as honorees of the 2022 award, alongside Haitian humanitarian organization FOKAL.
Inspired by the co-signin...
FOKAL Haiti Relief : Support for organizations in the Southern Peninsula of Haiti
In the face of the catastrophic August 14, 2021, 7.2 magnitude earthquake that affected the entire Southern Peninsula of Haiti, FOKAL is able to receive donations to channel funds to smallholder farmers associations, grassroots women’s organizations ...
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a music documentary with KORAL FOKAL.
directed by Pierre-Michel Jean, Réginald Louissaint Junior and Michèle Lemoine on a proposal by Lorraine Mangonès
On Friday, June 21, at 3:30 p.m., Fokal will broadcast on its YouTube, Facebook and I...
A visual campaign on sexual consent
Several civil society organizations launched on Friday, December 4, a popular campaign on social networks to raise awareness about sexual consent, on the eve of International Human Rights Day, celebrated on December 10.
For eight consecutive days - u...
Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis honored with WPL Trailblazer Award 2020
The President of FOKAL and former Prime Minister of Haiti, Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis, has been named Women Political Leaders Trailblazer Award Winner 2020, for her exceptional career as a woman political leader.
Mrs Pierre Louis received this awa...
Rêver d'arc-en-ciel, a new children's magazine
The first issue of a brand new children's magazine supported by FOKAL, Rêver d'arc-en-ciel (literally Dreaming of Rainbow), has been released recently. The signature sale of this issue took place on December 4 at Direction nationale duLivre in Port-a...
