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 devastation and suffering.
Ayiti Demen and the Foundation for Knowledge and Liberty (FOKAL) responded...
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 devastation and suffering.
Ayiti Demen and the Foundation for Knowledge and Liberty (FOKAL) responded...
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 Abolition.
On the night of August 22-23, 1791, a general slave insurrection broke out in the French...
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-signing of the Document on Human Fraternity by His Holiness Pope Francis and His Eminence Grand Imam of...
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 and small local ethical enterprises that are the true first responders on the ground as well as the...
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 Instagram networks, and on its partners' pages, the music documentary "Breathe. Remember...
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 - until December 11 - the public discovered one poster per day depicting a different consent (or...
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 award on Monday, November 9, 2020, at the Global Forum of Women Leaders 2020, which took place in...
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-au-Prince.
Rêver d'arc-en-ciel is a magazine for children aged from 7 to 14, directed and founded...
January 12, 2010, 4:53 am, 7.3 on the Richter scale: Haiti is violently struck by a deadly earthquake that leaves tens of thousands of families in mourning, and countless injured.
January 12, 2021: eleven years later, in Port-au-Prince, devastated and abandoned neighborhoods still bear witness to the scale of the disaster that destroyed the...
In 2019, Friends of Fokal (FoF), the U.S.-based charity with 501(c)3 federal exempt status, became Ayiti Demen. A name change, but still the same mission. To read in English the news of Ayiti Demen, we invite you to share the new website with your loved ones in the United States and Europe: www.ademen.org and subscribe to the newsletter: ...
"I like volunteering, especially when the cause concerns my community," says Carline Fermont, a FOKAL volunteer in Martissant. In 2007, she was already participating in the platform of discussions initiated at the level of the population about the creation of Martissant Park. This “space of speech” was an opportunity to stimulate...
Rien ne fit contre la colère du vent. Rejetant les cadeaux à cent pas de hauteur, il secoue la ville, ivre de fureur…
Jacques Stéphen Alexis, Compère Général Soleil
Just one year ago, the southern part of the country, particularly Camp Perrin, was struck by one of the cruelest...
FOKAL is changing the design of its website. This is in keeping with our desire to make the site more user-friendly and livelier, for a more efficient visit.
What has changed ?
First, the FOKAL and BMC calendars are now available in one click from the homepage of the site. Visitors will also discover some of the new features in other...
One hundred and eighty families in the district of Berno and its surroundings in the communal section of Camp Louise in the North now have access to good quality water and in greater quantity following the capture of the Mambo and Cayemite springs in this area. Inaugurated on July 28, 2017, the catchment works* were designed and implemented by...
At the Martissant Park, around twenty children and older persons were able to observe the partial solar eclipse, on August 21, 2017, thanks to special glasses, under the supervision of the Park’s staff.
The Citizenship project in Martissant, funded by the American Red Cross, brought together children and teenagers at the Park to...
In order to help young people face the problem of public lighting in the Martissant neighborhood, a project of FOKAL offers portable lamps on loan, through the library of the Katherine Dunham Cultural Center (CCKD).
The light library is a new project FOKAL is experimenting with young readers of the CCKD. Portable solar...
From July 19th to 24th 2017, FOKAL’s Youth Initiative Program brought together young debate leaders, coaches and judges for the program's traditional annual debate camp, held in the town of Jacmel at the Eco-Resort des Orangers ( HERO). During 5 days, two tournaments took place. First the semi-finals and the final of the national...
As part of our series of portraits of students and craftsmen of the on-site school of the Gingerbread project, Nouvèl FOKAL presents a woman who has worked on the finishing touches of the Dufort House: Florence Celcis. Experienced professional glassworker, she made fifteen lampshades and wall lamps for the home. She...
The Rasin Lespwa Library of Darbonne organized a range of activities in April 2016 under the theme "Literature and dictatorships" as part of the celebration of its 19 years of existence.
Thus, Saturday, April 16, 2016, the library welcomed Professor Patrice Dumont, the guest of honor of the celebration, for a conference. On April 17 and 24...
Dufort House, located at # 9, 2nd Avenue Travail, the first project of the FOKAL Gingerbread School Restoration Project, was inaugurated on March 21st, 2016.
This rehabilitation was part of the FOKAL overall project, in collaboration with ISPAN and other partner organizations. The goals of the project are: to better document the Gingerbread...
