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Action Haiti

  • Literacy rate: 61%
  • Population living below 1USD/day: 54%
  • Less than 15% of children are enrolled in secondary school
  • 3.5% of population is over 65, with 41.8% of the population between the ages of 0 – 14
  • 46% of population that is undernourished
Community Impact Total This Month Jobs Community Members New This Month Total
nextGeneration Villages 200 20 50 Individuals 10 192
cleanWater Villages 250 24 40 Companies/Institutions 2 17
schoolPromise Villages 150 27 42
healthWorks Villages 234 13 32
youthHaven Villages 544 56 84
NOTE: All numbers are purely illustrative. These figures will be updated as the data arrives.

Haiti

General Demographics:

  • Population:9 million
  • Literacy rate: 61%
  • Population living below 1USD/day: 54%
  • Less than 15% of children are enrolled in secondary school
  • 3.5% of population is over 65, with 41.8% of the population between the ages of 0 – 14
  • 46% of population that is undernourished
  • Haïti is one of the most densely populated countries in the world with more than 300 inhabitants per square kilometer, double that of the Dominican Republic. Population pressures on land area contribute to soil erosion and undermine environmental sustainability.

What's new with our campaign members:

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Villages Sponsoring:

Leogane, Haiti
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