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 extreme 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 an orphanage was the only means by which they could feed their child. Lagging adoptions, overcrowding, and lack of accountability has made many orphanages less than adequate homes for institutionalized children, who often develop severe emotional problems such as reactive attachment disorder. This is why we are an "un-orphanage." Our artisans' guild is keeping families together by providing opportunities for Haitians to be self-employed so that they can take care of their own children with creativity, dignity, and joy. To read more, visit www.apparentproject.org