• Haiti continues to occupy one of the last positions on the Human Poverty Index.
• The poorest households have a daily per capita income amounting to only 44% of the poverty line.
• Less than half of the population has access to drinking water in both rural and urban areas.
• The illiteracy rate is close to 84%.
• The infant mortality rate is one of the highest in the world.
• A mere 28% of the population has access to sanitation facilities.
• The poorest and most neglected, orphans and widows, suffer in Haiti as in no other
country in the Western Hemisphere.
GCA has chosen to aid in the rejuvenation of Haiti by helping the poorest of the poor - our
neighbors which are just a 90-minute plane ride away from Miami - and by addressing the
extreme injustices in Haiti.
In many ways, Haiti is a dry and parched land that quickly drinks up any outpouring of compassion or concern. GCA is of the strong view that Haiti is not a “welfare state” looking for a handout, but rather a country that has been abused for centuries, raped of its natural resources and then abandoned.
More than 50 percent of the population live
below the US $1 a day poverty line and 76% below the US $2 a day poverty line. GCA’s wide
range of activities over the past 10 years include: construction, community and leadership
development, medical clinics, negotiations with government and community leaders and various
economic enterprises/development.
