Mission, Vision, Demographics & Education

Mission

HAFHEAD is committed to assisting Haitian Americans who seek its services to achieve and maintain healthy lifestyles and social stability by direct intervention or referral to appropriate resources at municipal, county, state, or federal facilities.

Vision

Circumstances have changed and HAFHEAD is reconstituting its effort as a national initiative focusing on coordinating the Haitian Diaspora to establish structural advancements in the areas of healthcare, education, agribusiness, and infrastructure development.

The movement is called:

Operation Grace For Haiti: Building a Foundation for the Benefit of Haiti and the Haitian People

Demographics

• Population - 9,801,664.
• 35% are youth 15 years and younger
• 4% are 65 years or older.
• The vast majority of Haitians live at the lowest economic level.
• Distribution of ethnicity, class, and color.

Education

• Compulsory for ages 6-14
• Parochial and private schools outnumber the public schools
• Schools are disproportionately situated in urban areas
• Less than two-thirds of the children who should attend elementary education do so, and most of them never finish
• Principal language is Creole. French is spoken by 10% of the population

Economy

• An agricultural country where coffee is the main cash crop
• Few saleable mineral resources such as bauxite, copper, marble, and gold
• Haiti must import at least a quarter of its food
• Disintegration of farm ownership
• the eroded condition of soil
• the generally unproductive methods of cultivation and land management