Come alongside our dedicated riders in raising funds to promote education, safe housing, health clinics, and micro-businesses in rural Haiti.

This past year Haiti has experienced political turmoil, civil unrest and a cholera outbreak. The resulting economic crisis and extreme food shortages are impacting everyone in Haiti. Haiti H2O: Hope to Opportunity works with local leaders to invest in infrastructure and programs that address the long-term health, education, economic and nutrition needs in each of the villages where we partner.

Haiti H2O: Hope to Opportunity is a development organization based in Pittsburgh investing in Haitian-led solutions for remote villages through construction, agriculture, healthcare, and micro-business projects. Our approach is to take time to listen to local leaders and invest in their ideas, empowering them to make positive change. We currently work with four rural communities in Southwestern Haiti. Haiti H2O invests the money raised to impact the lives of people in rural Haiti!

Current projects include:
Quarterly Medical Clinics in Plain Matin, Bassin Caiman, St. Martin
Rebuilding homes destroyed by earthquake and hurricanes in Meloniere, Plain Matin, and St. Martin
Establishing micro-business opportunities in Plain Matin
Livestock cooperatives and farmer training to provide greater economic and food security

The Bike4Haiti helps to fund these partnerships and projects that provide opportunities to climb out of the poverty trap that grips so many in rural Haiti.

Invest in the hopes of rural Haitians. Donate today!

In 2021 Haiti H2O started holding a quarterly medical clinic in the community of Plain Matin and expanded to Bassin Caiman in 2022. Again in 2023 Haiti H2O was able to expand the quarterly medical clinic to the community of St. Martin. Each clinic sees an average of one hundred patients from the community and surrounding area. Some individuals walk hours to attend a clinic. Regular mobile clinics can better treat ongoing health problems like diabetes and high blood pressure which are common in Haiti. Left untreated, these conditions often lead to heart attack or stroke. The Bike4Haiti invests in the hopes of rural Haitians to have access to basic medical care. The funds raised will empower our Haitian partners to fulfill their longings for access to healthcare through the quarterly clinics.

Nearly half of all Haitians do not have enough to eat which makes them highly food insecure according to the World Food Program. The situation has reached an alarming threshold and continues to rise as the political instability persists. This past fall our community partners shared with Jeanne, Haiti H2O’s Community Development Director, the difficulty that they were having with the country lockdown and many markets closed. Jeanne used funds raised by Haiti H2O to purchase rice, beans and cooking oil, to distribute to families in need in all four of our partner communities. These staples would supplement the locally grown vegetables that make up part of the rural Haitian diet. Jeanne worked with village leaders to distribute food kits to 160 families.

The Bike4Haiti invests in the hopes of Haitians to have the ability to feed their families. The funds raised will allow Haiti H2O to continue to support this kind of immediate food assistance as well as long-term projects like a corn grinder business, agroecology training and bread oven cooperatives

It may look like an ordinary motorcycle, but for Wilkence Jean it is an opportunity to attend school and still support his family.

Motorcycles are used as taxis all over Haiti. Wilkence Jean will operate the motorcycle as a taxi service while he attends classes at Polyvalent University of Haiti (UPH) in their four year agroecology program. Wilkence Jean hopes to help farmers to increase their crop production and improve environmental conditions in Southern Haiti. Wilkence was separated from his family while he looked for work in the Dominican Republic. After the earthquake, he reached out to Haiti H2O through a past trip participant to see if we could help him move back to Haiti and start a taxi business to support his family while he goes to school.

The Bike4Haiti invests in the hopes of Haitians to have the ability to support their families while pursuing an education. The funds that you raise will allow Haiti H2O to continue to award educational grants and micro-loans.

2023 Haiti H2O Bike4Haiti

By Haiti H2O: Hope to Opportunity

2023 Haiti H2O Bike4Haiti

Turning Bike Miles along the GAP Trail into Opportunities in Rural Haiti

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