AlongSideHaiti is an organization that was founded based on a couple of very simple beliefs:
- That the best people to direct the “on the ground” relief efforts in Haiti are those who have been in Haiti for a substantial length of time.
- That a substantial amount of the good work that is being done in Haiti is being done by the smaller charities that don’t get bogged down by large bureaucracies.
- That most of the smaller charities in Haiti don’t have the infrastructure and support from “outside of Haiti” to do everything that is needed in a disaster zone like Haiti. Want proof? Ask an orphanage director what they would/could do if their monthly budget had another 0 to the left of the decimal point……
- That the children in Haiti deserve better. ALL of them.