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Ayiti Resurrect Delegation 2014

Ayiti Resurrect, a grassroots healing collective, asks for your support as we organize our 4th delegation focusing on arts, health, and sustainability.

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Ayiti Resurrect Delegation 2014

Ayiti Resurrect Delegation 2014

Ayiti Resurrect Delegation 2014

Ayiti Resurrect Delegation 2014

Ayiti Resurrect Delegation 2014

Ayiti Resurrect, a grassroots healing collective, asks for your support as we organize our 4th delegation focusing on arts, health, and sustainability.

Ayiti Resurrect, a grassroots healing collective, asks for your support as we organize our 4th delegation focusing on arts, health, and sustainability.

Ayiti Resurrect, a grassroots healing collective, asks for your support as we organize our 4th delegation focusing on arts, health, and sustainability.

Ayiti Resurrect, a grassroots healing collective, asks for your support as we organize our 4th delegation focusing on arts, health, and sustainability.

Ayiti Resurrect
Ayiti Resurrect
Ayiti Resurrect
Ayiti Resurrect
2 Campaigns |
Komye, Haiti
$1,915 USD 27 backers
38% of $5,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Highlights
Mountain Filled 2 Projects Mountain Filled 2 Projects

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Ayiti Resurrect is a grassroots collective that formed in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti based on principles of solidarity, creativity, and collective resilience. A team of visionary artists, holistic healers, and ecological innovators with bloodlines in Haiti and the African Diaspora, we have organized ourselves to work in collaboration with a rural community in Leogane to support the social, spiritual, emotional, physical, and environmental health of the community.

For the past three years, Ayiti Resurrect has been building powerful relationships with residents of Komye, a village just outside of Leogane city, the epicenter of the earthquake. Our community partners include farmers, healers, leaders, teachers, and artists. We are working together to cultivate a vision for collective healing, self-determination, diasporic collaboration, and community empowerment.  

We are asking for your support as we organize our fourth delegation focusing on arts, health, and sustainability. We are fundraising for the supplies needed for our project areas, support for the local community and our partners, as well as translators, healthcare workers, and other professionals in Haiti who will be joining us. We are building on the relationships forged and the work sustained over the past three years. With your help, Ayiti Resurrect's commitment to supporting the health and resilience of this incredible community will continue.

Background

Our first delegation coincided with the one year anniversary of the earthquake in 2011, where we collaborated with Ayiti Cherie Healing Project, local Haitian organizations, and community partners. We conducted art and music therapy workshops, implemented a mental wellness clinic, hosted a commemoration and created a monument to honor those who passed in the earthquake.

The following year in 2012, the project grew to 20 Ayiti Resurrect delegates from across the diaspora – from Brooklyn to Oakland, Port au Prince to Mirebalais. We worked with local healers, artists, farmers and community organizers in Haiti to orchestrate a breadth of tremendous offerings: Mask Making, Stone Sculpture, Recycled Arts, Storytelling and Poetry, Dance and Drumming, Yoga and Meditation, Reproductive Health workshops, Reiki, Peer to Peer Counseling, Herbal Medicine Walks, Sustainable Agriculture Skill-Shares, Composting Toilet Construction, and Solar Oven Building.

In February 2013, Ayiti Resurrect returned once again to Komye for a reforestation project in partnership with Tech Valley High School, Green Haiti, and the Mango Growers Association of Komye. Eight energized high school students from New York teamed up with numerous community volunteers from Komye and planted 1,000 fruit trees to provide shade, nutrition, and income to the area. We also planted vetiver to help stop erosion and retain water, and created a food forest permaculture model garden.

2014 Delegation

Now as we approach the 4th anniversary of the earthquake, Ayiti Resurrect is preparing for its fourth delegation to activate the next round of projects:

Arts: This year's arts focus will build upon the expertise and incredible skill of artists in Komye in stone carving, theater, dance, and visual arts, toward a vision of economic self-sufficiency. Ayiti Resurrect is convening some phenomenal professional Haitian artists from the United States and the Caribbean to work with local artists on marketing, access to wider audiences and resources, and honing their respective crafts. Additionally we are partnering with the local secondary school to offer a series of creative and performance arts workshops, inviting local artists to teach alongside artists from the delegation. Ayiti Resurrect will be donating art supplies so that the students can continue their creative work throughout the year.

Health: There is a strong need for preventative health care in Komye, a community separated from urban Leogane by a river crossing and seasonally impassable roads. We will collaborate with local nurses on a mobile clinic to address first aid, dental, and health consultation needs. And we will facilitate a series of workshops including protection of women and girls from abuse, reproductive health, and yoga and breathing techniques for mental wellness. Ayiti Resurrect will also be donating much needed medical supplies for the ongoing health clinic.

Sustainability: The focus of this year’s sustainability work will build on the successful planting of the 1000-tree fruit forest last year, by creating systems to get the tree crop to market year round. We will build a pilot solar mango drying system to convert the surplus unmarketable portion of the mango crop to useful product. Dried mango and mango powder address Vitamin A deficiency in the off season and increase farm family income year round. The Mango Growers Association of Komye will continue tree plantings in the rainy season as well as plant species for erosion control purposes with the resources donated by Ayiti Resurrect.

Commemoration: We will commemorate the 4th anniversary of the loss of lives in the devastating earthquake on January 12th, 2014, and celebrate the community’s resilience through a sharing of the arts and learning accomplished during the delegation.

Original limited edition hand silk-screened Print by Artist Crystal Clarity inspired by Ayiti Resurrect, Perk for contribution of $150 or more!

CONTRIBUTE!!!

We are a grassroots endeavor of two communities coming together across bloodlines and continents to facilitate healing from within. We are not an NGO with foundational or institutional backing, we are representatives from our hometowns and our lineages. Your support means everything as we engage in this all volunteer work dedicated to cultivating genuine people-to-people solidarity among members of the African diasporic family while reinforcing the strength and autonomy of the Haitian community.

Through the realization of this project dedicated to transforming trauma through collective healing, we hope to contribute in a small but significant way to building a healthy, sustainable and more just existence for the future generations of all Haitians.

Please contribute generously to our campaign! Every drop makes a difference! And visit our website www.ayitiresurrect.org or facebook page (Ayiti Resurrect) for more information about our work!

Other Ways You Can Help

1) Spread the word!-- Please help get the word out about Ayiti Resurrect and this campaign. Use the share tools to make it easy. Together we can do this!!!

2) Donate your frequent flier miles to one of our delegates!

3) Sponsor a delegate-- all of the delegates from our diaspora team are paying for their airfare to and from Haiti, and all personal expenses, in addition to volunteering their time. We are committed to this model to ensure that all of our collective fundraising goes directly to the community. That said, many of us are struggling to be able to afford these costs. Airfare is between $600 and $900, and lodging and food is $50-60 a day.

4) Heal the healers-- consider making an offering specifically to delegates for self-care to prepare or rejuvenate from the trip. We will all be experiencing, giving, and taking in a lot, and it's crucial that we take care of our bodies and spirits in the process. Offerings for acupuncture, reiki, or massage to support our team would be greatly appreciated!

5) Donate a laptop-- members of the community of Cormier have asked for support and help to build a small computer lab in their community center. In a country where 100,000 computers go obsolete every day, consider donating a working laptop to realize this dream in a place where the closest computer is almost an hour away.

6) Donate art and/or medical supplies -- art supplies for the children at the school in Komye and children in the larger community; medical supplies for the health clinic. A full list of needed medications can be found here on our website.

Contributions must be received by January 2nd, 2014. Please email us directly at ayitiresurrect@gmail.com to make arrangements if you can help in any of these ways. Thank you for any help you can offer!


We are truly grateful for all the support and blessings we have received and continue to receive. And we are thrilled and humbled to be doing this work with our brothers and sisters in Ayiti. We appreciate all of your prayers and meditations and continued blessings as we embark on another journey for collective healing.

With Love and Gratitude,

Naima Penniman, Angelique V. Nixon, Beatrice Anderson, and Leah Penniman

Ayiti Resurrect Core Collective

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Libation

$25 USD
Your name will be read aloud as one of the supporters of Ayiti Resurrect on January 12th, during the sharing of the arts and learning accomplished during the delegation. A candle will be lit for you on our gratitude altar during the commemoration as we honor those who passed during the earthquake.
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January 2014
4 claimed

Witness

$50 USD
Your name will be read aloud as one of the supporters of Ayiti Resurrect on January 12th, during the sharing of the arts and learning accomplished during the delegation. A candle will be lit for you on our gratitude altar during the commemoration as we honor those who passed during the earthquake; PLUS Digital Music Download of HAITI RISING! (Fete Gede 2011 - Festival of the Ancestors, Ayiti Resurrect Benefit in California - high quality recording of inspiring music).
Estimated Shipping
January 2014
2 claimed

Blessings

$75 USD
Digital Music Downloads: 1) HAITI RISING! (Fete Gede 2011 - Festival of the Ancestors, Ayiti Resurrect Benefit in California - high quality recording of inspiring music); 2) New Songs by Haitian artists (TBA) in collaboration with core collective member Beatrice Anderson.
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February 2014
0 claimed

Gratitude

$100 USD
Thank you card featuring specially designed artwork by children in the Komye community - created through the arts program that we will be facilitating in January 2014; PLUS Digital Download of New Songs by Haitian artists (TBA) in collaboration with core collective member Beatrice Anderson.
Estimated Shipping
March 2014
7 out of 25 of claimed

Voice Love

$111 USD
Very Special Edition Perk! One Hour Voice Lesson with core collective member & founder/director of My Inside Voice, Beatrice Anderson! PLUS Thank you card featuring specially designed artwork by children in Komye - created through the arts program that we will be facilitating in January 2014.
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April 2014
0 out of 5 of claimed

Earth Inspiration

$150 USD
Original limited edition hand silk-screened print by Artist Crystal Clarity inspired by Ayiti Resurrect (pictured left).
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March 2014
0 out of 20 of claimed

Sun Sparkle

$250 USD
Beautiful River Stone Carving from an artist in the Komye Community; PLUS Thank you card featuring specially designed artwork by children in Komye - created through the arts program that we will be facilitating in January 2014.
Estimated Shipping
March 2014
2 out of 15 of claimed

Rain Love

$500 USD
Artwork: 1) Original limited edition hand silk-screened print by Artist Crystal Clarity inspired by Ayiti Resurrect (pictured left); 2) Beautiful Large River Stone Carving from an artist in the Komye Community.
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March 2014
0 out of 5 of claimed

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