Konbit Pou Ayiti

Fourteen people from Massachusetts and New York will be joining KONPAY in January 2008 for ten days in Jacmel, Haiti's Carnival capital. Read a feature article about them in the Gloucester Daily Times. View their wish list for donations they will brig with them.

For Immediate Release: November 5, 2007

Emergency Flood Relief for Southern Haiti

Thousands are Homeless After Deadliest Storm of 2007

KONPAY believes it is important that we make investments in our own community, and that is why we were thrilled to begin a partnership with the young people and children in the village of Cyvadier where we have our headquarters. About fifteen minutes down the coast from the city ofJacmel, Cyvadier is a community of farmers and fishers. It is a gorgeous area, green and lush with coconut trees with a rugged, rocky coastline.

KONPAY is part of a growing grassroots movement to protect and restore Haiti's environment. As acting coordinator of the new Haitian National Coalition for the Environment, KONPAY's environmental program is part of a larger national effort. To learn more, visit:

www.haitienvironment.org.

January 30 to February 9, 2007

Are you eager to learn about the complex struggle of the Haitian people, both historically and today? Would you like to hear first-hand from artists, journalists, young activists, elected officials, environmentalists,... and Carnival revelers!