FFA’s activities in Haiti began in 2008 in response to three devastating hurricanes that left hundreds of people dead, most of the harvest destroyed and many cities uninhabitable.

Since then, FFA has raised and disbursed around $K to the mission, enabling them to repair two of the mission’s churches, assist eight families to overcome the aftereffects if the hurricanes, pay priests’ salaries, and tuition for 183 children.  

Most recently FFA activities have been focused on responding to the needs of the ROCOR mission in Haiti after the earthquake in January 2010, that devastated the country and threw back the mission to its starting point, destroying cities, homes, the mission’s churches, parishioners’ homes, a school in Port-au-Prince and the priests’ only vehicle that allowed them to visit the faithful all over the country.  

Currently the mission is suffering from

• lack of food, water and shelter
• lack of church books, vestments and holy vessels
• absence of church buildings

This ongoing effort has enabled the Fund for Assistance to raise around $160,000 for Haiti.  We are continuing our efforts in order to enable the mission to survive; our goal is to raise $2000 a month for our Haitian brothers and sisters.

• ROCOR mission commemorates one-year anniversary of Haiti earthquake
  
• Cholera Epidemic in Haiti: battling rumors, voodoo and free antibiotics
  
• Medical Aid for mission arrives in Haiti
  
• Orthodox Mission in Haiti: medical response to cholera outbreak
• Haiti mission members' situation dire after hurricane Tomas
• 53 baptized in Jacmel, Haiti in one weekend
  
• "Judging by how the Haitians pray to God, they are headed in the right direction..." - interview with Deacon Andrei Roudenko
• "Mission members are relying on Orthodox Support..." - interview with priest Matthew Williams
  
• Haiti Orthodox Family Relief Program launched
  
• Reflections on Haiti: Rich Man and Lazarus
  
• "To call a Haitian person lazy is to call a rose a stone…” Serge McKenzie on his recent trip to Haiti
•  "Lives are totally wrecked..." FFA Board member reflects on her trip to Haiti
• Members of Haitian Orthodox Mission Rebuild Lives Torn by Earthquake
• “I thought it was the end of the world…” - an interview with Matushka Rose Legoute of Haiti
• Haitian Priest Visits U.S.
• Fund for Assistance distributes Aid to Haiti, overcomes difficulties
• Haiti ROCOR mission clergy send a letter of thanks to Metropolitan Hilarion
• "Members of the Haiti Mission are afraid of the future..."  an interview with Deacon Matthew Williams
• Haiti Mission's Most Pressing Needs by Deacon Matthew Williams
• Press Release: FFA reponse to Haiti Earthquakes
• Haiti Tragedy: Statement by the First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad
• ROCOR Haiti Mission Struggles for Survival
• FFA supports a ROCOR mission in Haiti
• Haiti sends financial report for 2008 (PDF)
• The importance of the Russian Orthodox Mission in Haiti
• Interview with priest Gregoire Legoute, rector of Nativity of the Holy Theotokos Orthodox Church in Port au Prince
• Report on the Visit to Haiti by Fr Daniel McKenzie