How you can provide hope for Haiti

Posted by Andrea Shared Interest Foundation

February 3, 2010

We have all seen the horrific results of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti without warning.

The Shared Interest Foundation Livelihood Security Fund was established in 2009 to assist Fairtrade craft makers and farmers during disasters. The fund helps to rebuild businesses and communities.

Haiti based Shared Interest customers Comite Artisanal Haitien (CAH), who work with 180 craft makers and groups throughout the country, have been in touch to update us on their situation:

“I am able to report that most of the producers in the affected areas have called, to report: no deaths but houses down.

Port-au-Prince is where the most damage happened. So far only 25 of 100 craft makers called to say that they are OK but they have lost houses (the others are feared dead).

We are all still in shock but slowly getting back to what looks like a “normal life”. The comfort of knowing that more and more people we know and love are alive is helping a lot.

Thanks to you all for your messages of solidarity and hope. I will transmit that to all the artisans. Be sure that this will be a big help in our recovery process.”

If you would like to donate to the Livelihood Security Fund and help rebuild communities like this, please send a cheque payable to Shared Interest Foundation to, Shared Interest, No. 2 Cathedral Square, Groat Market, Newcastle, NE1 4XF or donate online by clicking here.