The ELCA in Haiti: A Long-Standing Partnership

The ELCA stands with its neighbors in Haiti in the aftermath of an earthquake that shook the land and captured the hearts of people across the world: people like you wanting to help, wanting to make a difference in the lives of strangers who are suddenly homeless and lacking basic necessities.

ELCA World Hunger has been on the ground in Haiti for many years, providing millions of dollars and supporting many programs through local work of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF). It’s because of this work on the ground and relationships with the LWF and partner organizations like Action by Churches Together (ACT) that the ELCA is able to take your gifts and translate them quickly into food, water, clothing and shelter for people who need it now more than ever in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

Your gifts to ELCA World Hunger and ELCA Disaster Response are providing water. A water purification system with pipes, filters and pumps transported from freezing-cold Norway to scorching-hot Haiti is providing 10,000 homeless Haitians with clean drinking water. The ACT Alliance brought in desperately needed special water and sanitation facilities. The “water factory” is based in the Belair neighborhood of Port-au-Prince and provided the first clean water many people had access to after the earthquake.

Thanks to your generous gifts and ELCA World Hunger’s long-time work in Haiti, together we have been able to act swiftly in the massive relief effort to support as many survivors and victims of this widespread catastrophe as possible. Together, we have been present in Haiti for many years, are present today, and will continue to work with our brothers and sisters there long after the global spotlight is cast elsewhere.

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PHOTO: A girl in the Belair neighborhood of Port-au-Prince who survived Haiti's devastating January 12 earthquake enjoys safe water for the first time on January 21 after Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the Action by Churches Together Alliance, installed a water system that provides homeless families with piped in water points. [Photo by Paul Jeffrey/ACT Alliance]