Haïti International Friendship Amateur Radio Club

09/30/2025

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08/23/2024

Please pray the victims of gang violence in Haiti.

BY JACQUELINE CHARLES

AUGUST 22, 2024 12:01 PM Cities like

Les Cayes in southern Haiti are seeing an increase in children enrolled in area schools and people seeking healthcare as the number of people fleeing gang violence in Port-au-Prince since Feb. 29, 2024, increased dramatically. Half of the population in Haiti is not getting enough to eat and barely a quarter of the hospitals are operating at normal levels.

And between March and June of this year, the number of internally displaced people shot up 60%, bringing the total number forced out of their homes by armed gangs to 578,000.

Despite the deteriorating humanitarian situation and the consequences of Haiti’s indiscriminate violence, which is now spilling over into communities outside of Port-au-Prince, the country is struggling to attract the world’s help.

On Thursday, the United Nations relaunched a $674 million humanitarian response plan, noting that with less than five months left in the year, it remains severely underfunded.

As of August 5, the plan had raised only 24% of the total.

03/10/2024

What's wrong with Haiti, and how did we get here? This is a good explanation. But it does not describe the terrible family losses and the citizens living in fear. The gangs are really evil and take advantage of that fear.

Haiti’s prime minister was last seen in Puerto Rico, negotiating his return to a homeland gripped by violence and controlled by heavily armed gangsters. With his fate in the air and the situation in Haiti deteriorating by the day, the world has been left to wonder whether the country will fully de...

11/13/2021

Thanks to a generous donation by ARDC, we are developing a HF emergency communication network in Haiti. This is very important because during previous emergencies in Haiti, different areas of the country were completely cut off from any communication or transportation. Radios and equipment and antennas have been purchased and sent to Haiti. We are now waiting for security issues to improve.

09/01/2021

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We are with Dale, N3BNA who is here to discuss the Haiti Earthquake and how he is working to help the people in Haiti through Ham Radio.

06/25/2020

When solar power will not work, try wind power !

Our Amazing Wind Power Initiative June 24, 2020 admin Tet Boeuf is almost always hidden by clouds. For several decades LOTM Executive Director Dale Long had a dream of installing wind power in Haiti. This started with stories from missionaries who in the past told of a small wind-charger at Morne Te...

06/18/2020

The Circuit Board May 17, 2020 admin Rescuing an obscure board saves Torbeck AM station for 775,000 people   Radio Lumiere began in southern Haiti and one of our major stations has always been the big AM station in the village of Torbeck., near Les Cayes on the southern peninsula. This station serv...

11/01/2019

Emergency food distribution in Haiti