Four New Voices Join the Centre NGO Directory

The Centre NGO directory continues to grow, becoming a richer, more accurate picture of the organizations working across Haiti and its diaspora. This month, we’re glad to welcome four organizations whose missions span feminist advocacy, child protection, food security, and digital access, showing the breadth and interconnectedness of Haitian-led work.

Organisation Féministe MARIJÀN brings a powerful voice to the directory. Founded in 2020 by a group of young feminists and named in homage to a sister in the struggle for freedom, MARIJÀN focuses on services for women and girls who are survivors of gender-based violence, as well as programs that promote gender equality. Based in Port-au-Prince, the organization offers legal, medical, and psychological support to survivors, has established a financial fund to assist them, and runs a crisis hotline that it intends to strengthen. Its work extends into awareness and education, including workshops on sexual health and sexual violence, aimed at empowering young girls and the communities around them.

Little Footprints Big Steps centers its mission on the youngest and most vulnerable. Working to protect children and reinforce families through community-based support, the organization keeps families together and children safe through locally grounded care. Operating from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, with deep ties to its work in Haiti, Little Footprints Big Steps reflects the cross-border nature of much diaspora-connected child welfare work.

Concorde Haïtienne de Sécurité Alimentaire et Nutritionnelle (CHSAN), based in Jérémie in the Grand’Anse, is a local organization committed to combating food insecurity and malnutrition in southwestern Haiti. Its approach is comprehensive: strengthening local agriculture by supporting small producers with training, equipment, and agro-ecological techniques; improving nutrition through family awareness and food programs for the most vulnerable; defending the right to food through advocacy with policymakers and civil society; and building international partnerships to finance and strengthen local initiatives.

ZanmiLwen rounds out this group with a focused, practical mission: reconditioning and placing computers in classrooms across Haiti. Operating out of Atlanta, Georgia, ZanmiLwen addresses the digital divide directly, putting working technology into the hands of students and teachers where it can make an immediate difference.

Each of these organizations strengthens the directory, and the directory, in turn, strengthens the broader ecosystem by making Haitian-led and diaspora-connected work easier to find, verify, and support. If your organization isn’t yet listed, register on our website and add your voice to this growing community.