CORE Supports Music and Art Camp for Haitian Youth
October 20, 2025
Amid violence and instability in Port-au-Prince, Haitian youth picked up their instruments and celebrated at Plezi Mizik’s annual summer camp.
Haiti
EMERGENCY UPDATE: CORE recently responded to Hurricane Melissa, a catastrophic Category 5 storm that swept through the Caribbean. In coordination with trusted partners, our local team in Haiti quickly mobilized to support communities in the South that faced deadly flooding, landslides, and outages. For more information about our response, visit the Hurricane Melissa landing page.
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$25
Buys 25 seedlings to help restore degraded land, fight erosion, and help feed families.
$50
Provides tools, seeds, notebooks, and climate-focused learning materials for 6 students in school-based Environmental Clubs.
$100
Funds one biomechanical terraced structure that reduces runoff, slows erosion, and conserves water in hillside farming communities.
$200
Helps a Haitian farmer start their beekeeping livelihood by funding the materials to build a beehive. You’ll also support pollination, honey production, and income for rural families.
$500
Buys 500 mangrove seedlings to restore vital coastal ecosystems that protect against hurricanes, prevent erosion, and support marine life.
$1,000
Fully sponsors one participant through our beekeeping training program, including startup supplies for their first hives.
$25
Buys 25 seedlings to help restore degraded land, fight erosion, and help feed families.
$50
Provides tools, seeds, notebooks, and climate-focused learning materials for 6 students in school-based Environmental Clubs.
$100
Funds one biomechanical terraced structure that reduces runoff, slows erosion, and conserves water in hillside farming communities.
$200
Helps a Haitian farmer start their beekeeping livelihood by funding the materials to build a beehive. You’ll also support pollination, honey production, and income for rural families.
$500
Buys 500 mangrove seedlings to restore vital coastal ecosystems that protect against hurricanes, prevent erosion, and support marine life.
$1,000
Fully sponsors one participant through our beekeeping training program, including startup supplies for their first hives.
Growing roots in Haiti
CORE (formerly J/P HRO) was founded in 2010 in response to the catastrophic 7.0 earthquake that struck just outside of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. In just 35 seconds, more than 220,000 people lost their lives, countless others were injured, and 1.5 million were instantly homeless—forever changing the country and the lives of those who call it home.
In the aftermath of the earthquake, we cleared literal tons of rubble, ran the largest camp of displaced people in Haiti, and worked alongside communities to rebuild, accomplishing in five years what many believed would take decades.
When global attention faded, CORE never left Haiti. We invested in local leadership and built a strong Haitian-led team that continues to serve communities through ongoing insecurity and unrest. This ethos of simply rolling up our sleeves and getting to work, no matter how great the challenge, continues to guide CORE today.
2.2 million
PEOPLE REACHED
52,800
POUNDS SEEDLINGS DISTRIBUTED
300
MUSIC STUDENTS EDUCATED ANNUALLY
649,000
M³ DEBRIS REMOVED
Our work in Haiti
For 16 years, CORE has remained in Haiti through moments of acute crisis and long-term recovery work alike, empowering local communities through education, health, climate resilience, urban renewal, community development, and food security activities. Today, Haiti faces compounding challenges: persistent poverty and inequality, widespread food insecurity, and recurring natural disasters that threaten already vulnerable communities.
Across the country, CORE’s programs address environmental degradation, build community resilience, and promote sustainable livelihoods. In Les Cayes, Baradères, and other coastal communities, our local team supports families, farmers, and students with critical agricultural tools and training to increase food security and restore and protect degraded land. In Port-au-Prince, in partnership with Music Heals International, we’re carrying on our decades-long music education program, reaching hundreds of children and teens each year and nurturing creativity, resilience and hope through the power of music.
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“It’s a wonderful program; in our district, it is agriculture that ensures our children’s education. If we didn’t have agriculture, I don’t know in what condition we would be.’’
Meet Edmond.
Edmond is one of 1,200 farmers in Nippes trained by Acceso and CORE, who, with funding from USAID-BHA, support local agriculture efforts. Formerly a construction worker, Edmond lost his job when COVID and gang violence drove up concrete prices. He turned to farming to provide for his family, but faced challenges due to high startup costs. Through this vital program, he received training in modern agricultural practices, received pea seeds, and learned to prepare his garden. With this support, Edmond has been able to successfully harvest and sell his crops. Farming has now become a reliable source of income, allowing him to provide for his family and build a more stable future.
Read Edmond’s full story here.
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CORE Providing Long-Term Farming Success in Haiti
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CORE partnered with Acceso, an international org that helps local farmers, to work with residents and farmers in the Nippes department in southern Haiti to bring about a sustainable economic revitalization.
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