Our Program

At Operation Grace for Haiti, our mandate is to coordinate and mobilize the Haitian Diaspora to uniformly serve and improve the quality of life for low-income and under-served persons in Haiti. We will provide central planning and information for Diaspora-driven macro level development campaigns. This program will be used to consolidate Diaspora efforts and resources for consistent and impactful advancement.

The Haitian Diaspora is estimated to be between 2.7 – 4.5 million people, throughout the world residing primarily in the Dominican Republic, United States, Canada, France as well as other Caribbean nations such as Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas and Jamaica. The Diaspora contributions add more to the Haitian economy than the three biggest international benefactors; the United States, Canada, and France combined. According to a World Bank estimate, the Diaspora contributes nearly 2 billion US dollars a year to the Haitian economy mostly through remittance to family members living in Haiti. The Haitian government survives partly because of these remittances.