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.