BRANDAID HAITI is a new urgent initiative to help rebuild artisan communities and their businesses in Haiti.
The delivery of medical care, food and shelter is of course desperately needed and the absolute priority. But many people in Haiti and beyond are thinking about how Haiti will recover once the worst is over. Artisan communities are in fact a critical economic and cultural backbone of the country and a key to rebuilding livelihoods and a sense of hope.
Brandaid Haiti is pulling together a coalition involving international aid agencies, Ad agencies, Corporations and the public to work with dozens of thses communities.
Carnival Jakmèl
With vegetable glue and paint, old cement bags and paper become a colorful celebration of tradition and imagination.