Haiti is known for being the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation, the victim of this century's worst natural disaster, and home to almost 500,000 orphans. The ApParent Project is responding to these needs with a desire that Haiti become known for its unique beauty, the incredible strength and ingenuity of its people, and the deep faith and hope that has sustained this nation through unimaginable difficulty.
The ApParent Project is addressing Haiti's orphan crisis at the root by responding to the needs of families before they are at the point of desperation, driven to give their children to an orphanage because of exteme poverty. After all, the vast majority of Haiti's "orphans" have not been orphaned by parental deaths, earthquakes, hurricanes, or floods, but are children of LIVING parents who gave them up simply because the orphanage was the only available means for them to feed their child. Lagging adoptions, overcrowding, and lack of accountability has made many orphanages less than adequate homes for Haitian institutionalized children, who often develop severe emotional problems such as reactive attachment disorder. This is why we are an "un-orphanage." Through a collaborative artisans guild we are finding creative ways for Haitian parents to be self-employed so that they can take care of their own children with dignity, creativity, and joy. 

While the Apparent Project strives for sustainability and charity-free living for our Haitian artisans, we continue to raise funds to help displaced Haitian families get out of tents and exploitive rent situations and into homes.  We are currently doing this by creating an artisan's village which will increase tourism, promote independant sales of artisans' goods, and enhance a neighborhood culture of work.  Your contributions help us not only put families in homes, but also strengthen our artisans means of selling their work.  Thank you for your help!