Future Generations Haiti —An Overview

Future Generations is empowering positive community-based action in one of the poorest and most dangerous places on the planet – Cite Soleil in the slums of Port-Au-Prince.

Haiti Country Representative, Tara Yip-Bannicq, states, "Around the world, development practitioners look for needs and problems and bring in experts to try to fix those problems, but here in Cite Soleil, Haiti, we have a different approach. Instead of other people searching for our weaknesses as a community, we search for our own strengths; where other people look for problems to solve, we look for where we have succeeded and how we can build upon those successes. The world looks at us as a hopeless “red zone,” but we look at ourselves as pioneers for a green future for our country. For far too long, Cite Soleil has been left in the dark, but now a new sun is rising over the Sun City and we call it Konbit Soley Leve."

Future Generations is working to help the citizens of Cite Soleil take their lives into their own hands with their own resources. In the countryside, when a task is too great for one farmer, he will call konbit, and his neighbors will come and help him. There is no expectation of money, just that the farmer calling konbit will come and help when someone else is in trouble. In Haiti's largest slum, we have taken this rural seed for success and planted it in an urban environment. With help from Future Generations, slum residents have a new sense of pride in their community and hope for their future.

You can make a difference. Become a partner with Future Generations and help sustain a positive future for people in Cite Soleil and other people in the world empowered to seek solutions starting with what they have.