Group Region: Caribbean​

Helen’s Daughters is a grassroots nonprofit in St. Lucia providing capacity-development training, mentorship, micro-investment, access to high-value markets and a structured care-system for…

Plenitud PR is a 501c3 non-profit educational farm and teaching center dedicated to service, sustainability, and community in Puerto Rico. They provide people…

Founded in 2016, Irie Kids provides children in Saint Lucia with opportunities and resources to help them reach their full potential. This organization…

Founded in 2012, Raise Your Voice Saint Lucia provides material support and social services to women and children experiencing gender-based violence. The organization…

The Lambi Fund of Haiti is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to assist the popular, democratic movement in Haiti. Its goal is to help strengthen civil society as a necessary foundation of democracy and development. The fund channels financial and other resources to community-based organizations that promote the social and economic empowerment of the Haitian people.

Founded in 2008, Youthaiti is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping and encouraging Haitian young people in their development of ecological projects in sanitation and water-source protection, community gardening, and reforestation in their own communities in rural Haiti. Since its inception, it has built twenty-two public community urine-diverting ecological toilets and installed over 150 household Arborloo composting latrines. The organization has also conducted education programs on sanitation and hygiene in schools and reached over 5,000 students.

The Quixote Center is a multi-issue social justice organization that was founded in 1977. It works alongside partner organizations to bring about lasting systemic change. The Center stands in solidarity and friendship with those who seek to improve the lives of the very poor. It provides guidance, technical assistance, and funding to support the work of these groups and allow their movements and programs to mature. To accomplish this, it relies on the support of likeminded people who recognize the need for structural changes in an increasingly unequal global society.

The Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) and its partner the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) work with nonviolent grassroots movements to advance con­sti­tu­tional democ­racy, jus­tice, and human rights in Haiti. Founded in 1994 and 2005, respectively, the BAI and IJDH pur­su­e legal cases, train progressive Haitian lawyers, collaborate with domestic and international solidarity groups, and dis­trib­ut­e infor­ma­tion on human rights con­di­tions in Haiti.

Thanks to a collaboration between the Cultures of Resistance Network and the American Friends of SOAS (AFSOAS), two postgraduate scholarships will be available in 2014/15 at SOAS, University of London. Valued at £24,000 per student, the scholarships will be used to help their recipients meet the costs of tuition fees at the overseas rate and also help them meet any additional costs (e.g. transport, purchasing books, research costs) associated with their stay in London.

Partners in Health is a is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a preferential health care option for the poor. Founded in 1987 to deliver health care to the residents of rural Haiti, the group now helps provide health care to underserved communities in ten countries around the world. By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in poor communities, Partners In Health strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them, and to serve as an antidote to despair.