Greetings Friends and Family,
Ayiti Resurrect is about to launch its 5th delegation to Haiti this week, returning to Komye (April 15-22nd) to continue building on this powerful collaboration between Black healers, farmers, artists, and educators committed to community resilience and translocal solidarity. This year’s goals include organizing a natural wellness clinic, starting a community herbal garden, creating erosion barriers and planting trees, seeding a women’s micro-enterprise cooperative, and facilitating seminars on global Black & Brown movements for self-determination, among so much more!
WE ARE SO GRATEFUL to everyone who contributed to our 100% successful crowd-funding campaign!!! To the schools and groups that gave larger donations, and to those that came out to the benefits in Brooklyn & Trinidad! Your support is immeasurable and ripples out in such meaningful ways in the lives of our brothers and sisters in Komye.
Just one example among many: Thanks to you, 1521 orange, olive, cocoas & papaya seeds were sown in a new tree nursery at the local school; and 85 tomato, sweet pepper, spinach, & swiss chard seedlings are growing in the school garden!
We will be posting
photos and updates on our
website,
Facebook, and brand new
Instagram pages. We hope you’ll follow along! And please stay posted for an
unprecedented opportunity to buy artwork directly from the incredible artisans in the village. We will be hosting an Art Expo on
Sunday 4/19, and will post photos of each piece along with prices on
our website and social media (
FB &
IG). You will have the opportunity to purchase artwork and we will carry back items sold and ship it to you from the States!
Komye is renowned for is river stone sculptures that have been evolving for generations. Thank you in advance for participating and spreading the wordto those who you think might be interested in providing much needed capital to the artist community in Komye.
