Dear Friends, Visitors and Members,

I am opening a new Haiti Life Help Center to assist the people's of Haiti. Haiti is located South of Cuba, and West of Puerto Rico, in the Carribean. (see map below)

The reason for this is that I opened an educational center in Haiti in the 90's with the help of a Haitian Doctor and his family and we have reunited to handle the horrendous conditions there. The conditions in Haiti have deteriorated drastically to a point where people are eating mud. The new Executive Director, in Haiti, tells me that Rice and Beans are a luxury. We cannot allow this to continue. We have resources to help them get out of the mud.

The plan is to help this country on two fronts through our Life Help Centers. One is to assist the people's of Haiti with food and basics for their survival, while we educate and train them to be more self sufficient and able to survive more and more on their own initiative.

Many factors have been involved in this countries demise including intervention from without. Haiti is part of our world, our planet. They need our assistance in whatever way we can, to help take responsibility for this countries condition.

Currently I have $25,000 worth of clothes, and educational materials to send to Haiti NOW. What is needed IMMEDIATELY is food and money donations to ship these items to Haiti.

If you can help in other ways, please let me know. With minimal efforts and funds, we can help hundreds of thousands. Lets be the Heroes of Haiti. Are you with me?

Thank you.
Cary Goulston
Pres. NHA
727 488 7988
carybg@aol.com

Country (long form) Republic of Haiti

Capital Port-au-Prince

Total Area 10,714.33 sq mi

27,750.00 sq km (slightly smaller than Maryland)

Population 6,867,995 (July 2000 est.)
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS

Estimated Population in 2050 11,851,865

Languages French (official), Creole (official)

Literacy 45.0% total, 48.0% male, 42.2% female (1995 est.)

Religions - Roman Catholic 80%, Protestant 16% (Baptist 10%, Pentecostal 4%,
                Adventist 1%, other 1%), none 1%, other 3% (1982)

Life Expectancy 47.46 male, 51.06 female (2000 est.)

Government Type elected government

Currency 1 gourde (G) = 100 centimes

GDP (per capita) $1,340 (1999 est.)

Labor Force (by occupation) agriculture 66%, services 25%, industry 9%

Industry:  sugar refining, flour milling, textiles, cement, tourism, light assembly industries
               based on imported parts

Agriculture: coffee, mangoes, sugarcane, rice, corn, sorghum; wood

Arable Land 20%

Exports manufactures, coffee, oils, mangoes

Imports food, machinery and transport equipment, fuels

Natural Resources bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, gold, marble, hydropower

Current Environmental Issues: extensive deforestation (much of the remaining forested land is being cleared for agriculture and used as fuel); soil erosion; inadequate supplies of potable water

Telephones (main lines in use) 60,000 (1995)

Telephones (mobile cellular) 0 (1995)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) 6 (1999)

(From U.S. Government sources)