Clinton Foundation in Haiti

In response to President Clinton’s Call to Action for Haiti in September 2008, Clinton Global Initiative members responded with more than $100 million worth of commitments to help Haiti “build back better.” Credit: Todd France/Clinton Global Initiative

President Clinton, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and Haitian-American musician Wyclef Jean visit a school for children and their mothers in Cite Soleil, Haiti, in March 2009. The school is administered by Filles de la Charite de St. Vincent de Paul and is supported by a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment involving the UN World Food Program, Yele Haiti, and Bureau de Nutrition et Développment. Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and former US President Bill Clinton speak with students at Haitian Educational Leadership Program school. President Clinton and Secretary Ban Ki-moon traveled to Haiti for a 24-hour working visit to support Haitian Government efforts in building back stability and economic security.

President Clinton, Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster, President and CEO of Basic Energy Ltd., and a delegation visiting a textile factory in Haiti in March 2009. Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

President Clinton is joined by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (center) and Alrich Nicolas (left) Minister for Foreign Affairs of Haiti, at a press conference on the current state of Haiti.

President Clinton visits Haiti after the 2010 earthquake and speaks with Haitian residents on the current conditions in the country.

President Clinton visiting a recycling project in Carrefour, Haiti in July 2009. Credit: UN Photo/Marco Dormino

President Clinton, Alice Albright of ExIm Bank, and a delegation visiting Caribbean Harvest fish farm run by Dr. Valentin Abe, outside of Port-au-Prince in October 2009. Credit: UN Photo/Logan Abassi

President Clinton and Haitian President René Préval announce that the Clinton Health Access Initiative will be expanding its work to Haiti in October 2009. Credit: UN Photo/Marco Dormino

After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, President Clinton formed the Clinton Foundation Haiti Fund to turn donations of money and supplies into direct relief for the people and government of Haiti. The Clinton Foundation supported $16 million in emergency relief supplies delivered to Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake.

The Haiti Development Fund, funded by the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative and Carlos Slim, approved its first investment of $415,000 in 2011 for Caribbean Craft, a Haitian artisan and handicraft company that exports its products to Macy’s, Anthropologie, West Elm and Donna Karan.

As part of the Clinton Foundation's commitment to expanding access to education in Haiti, the Foundation has provided $1.25 million to support the government of Haiti’s Back to School initiative. These funds will subsidize school fees for 400,000 students across the country for one year.

The Clinton Foundation is working to expand access to education in Haiti and is working with partners on rebuilding Haitian schools that were destroyed after the 2010 earthquake. The Clinton Foundation provided $1.25 million education grant in 2011 to the government of Haiti to support their Back to School Initiative.

President Clinton visits the Caracol industrial park in Haiti on January 15, 2011. The development of the Caracol Park has been a collaboration between the Clinton Foundation, Haitian government, Inter-American Development Bank and the U.S. State Department. The apparel manufacture Sae-A will be the anchor tenant and will create 20,000 jobs. Origin Holdings & Sherwin Williams will be the second and third tenants in the park.

As part of the Clinton Foundation's commitment to job creation in Haiti, the Foundation facilitated the signing of a development and operating agreement between Marriott and Digicel to build a 174-room Marriott branded hotel in the Turgeau area of Port-au-Prince. In December 2012, Digicel and Marriott broke ground on the hotel. The hotel is expected to open in 2015, and once complete, the new hotel will create 175 sustainable jobs in Haiti.

President Clinton talks with students at the Bon Berger De Doman School in Haiti during his visit in March 2011. The Bon Berger De Doman School is one of multiple schools in the Boucan-Carre regions of Haiti that is operating on solar energy. Through the Clinton Global Initiative, the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) and NRG Energy made a $1 million commitment to support clean energy technology infrastructure in a central highland region called Boucan-Carre. Photo Credit: Andres Martinez Casares