This research paper focuses on Haitian women's access to healthcare and barriers to receiving quality treatment, including how political turmoil has affected it throughout the 21st century. Haiti's history of economic instability has left many women in poverty and unable to pay for healthcare. Additionally, political turmoil has left many women unable to access resources, such as food and water, to maintain their health at home. In addressing the barriers to healthcare for Ha

In recent months, cuts to external funding have threatened one of Borgne’s most essential community services: immediate nutrition and care for children and families . Mobile nutrition clinics—long a cornerstone of the Sante nan Lakou   model—have been forced to pause, even as food insecurity has intensified across northern Haiti. Inside the Alyans Sante Oboy hospital, Dr. Thony Voltaire and his team continue to provide urgent nutritional support to children who arrive for car

Meet Dr. Thony Voltaire, the medical director of northern Haiti’s most trusted and enduring medical facility, Alyans Sante Borgne. Born “on the side of the road” to a revered local woman and mother of eleven, Dokte Thony grew up deeply connected to the people of Borgne. That connection—grounded in humility, respect, and love—has shaped every step of his life’s work. Photo by Shields Sundberg Everything he does begins with empathy—an essential yet continually tested virtue in

Photo published by World Food Program in their March 13, 2023 article: "GlobalFood Crisis: The 10 Countries Suffering the Most from Hunger" Food security is a problem that impacts over 3.1 billion people globally. That’s nearly half of the world’s population. While there is an urgent need for global structural reform to tackle the moral failure to ensure that every human being has access to food, we continue the fight community by community. In Haiti, ordinary people cite nu

Photo from Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations Conditions in Haiti have worsened ever more steadily in the past 5 years, reaching now, shocking levels of injustice. Armed groups block roads, disrupt food supplies, and attack hospitals, shutting down nutrition programs that once supported children and vulnerable adults. The mass destruction of livelihoods and the displacement of families make finding a reliable and continuous food source a daily struggle.

Photo is from the Madan Sara film website ~Filmmaker Etant Dupain, left with Clotilde Achille who worked closely with the team on the groundbreaking documentary. In Etant Dupain's documentary film, Madan Sara, one sees the foundational importance of Haiti's market women, or Madan Sara: "Madan Sara is Ours. Madan Sara is Haiti." Most sara inherit their place in Haitis economy from their mothers, creating a multi-generational and foundational center for Taiti’s economy. They