Haiti News

April 2019 Joseph Israel (Aslan’s Haiti Director) lost his younger brother, Edel, this morning. Edel was only forty years old, and over the years I had become very close to him. As a master mason, he made every block for the [...]

April 2019 It is sad to hear from Joseph, director of Aslan’s Haiti programs, when one of our friends there has died. Often Joseph’s calls involve someone young, but yesterday he called to tell me that our old friend, Loriston, had [...]

Consider the following situation that Haiti is in: Haiti is the third hungriest country in the world after Somalia and Afghanistan The richest 1% of the population controls nearly half of all of Haiti’s wealth The poorest country in the western [...]

May 2018 Just walk in and flush your toilet. That's all you need to do to realize how difficult life is in Haiti. This country of over 11 million people sits 500 miles off the coast of Florida, and almost none [...]

February 2018 If I allow myself to, I see Haiti with “fresh eyes” each time I return to this wonderful country. Although I’ve never had the privilege of visiting Africa, everywhere I looked today I knew I was seeing Afrik (Africa [...]

September 2017 Dearest Friends, I am thankful to report to you that it appears Haiti has escaped the worst of Hurricane Irma. I am unable to reach my dearest friend, Israel Joseph, but reports I’ve read about Ouanaminthe mostly indicate severe [...]

February 2017 Okay. I’m just kidding with the title of this blog – more about that later! Today was “take our truck across the border into the Dominican Republic” day. We’re allowed to do this for only one reason. Booz (pronounced [...]