HOPE
Why Haiti Needs
Your Help
From being declared “the Pearl of the Antilles”, Haiti is now considered the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti’s situation evolved from a long history of exploitation, corruption, political instability, and devastating natural disasters
In 2010 a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Southern Haiti, resulting in 250,000 deaths, forcing 1 1/2 million people to be homeless, and causing over 8,000 survivors to be amputees. In 2016 Hurricane Matthew leveled the transitional wood and tin reconstruction in Southern Haiti. In 2021 older concrete structures not destroyed by Matthew, fell in another 7.2 magnitude earthquake centered farther in the mountains. Over 1,200 schools were destroyed and all the major hospitals on the southern coast. Destruction of the hospitals meant more than 2,000 more amputations, mostly due to infection.
Our program is founded and run by some of these more than 10,000 Haitian amputees living in Southern Haiti. Our participants not only lost a limb, but have lost their house, church, school, hospital, and market. But the most crushing loss has been the loss of employment.
77%
live on less than $2 a day
50%
lack access to clean water
71%
have NO sanitation
For decades, Haiti has continued to be the poorest nation in the western hemisphere.
Millions of Haitians do not have access to clean water after the 2010 earthquake destroyed many sanitation systems.
Lack of sanitation has resulted in more illnesses and deaths related to epidemics and pandemics that have affected Haiti.
2021 earthquake destroyed
54,000
homes
1,200
Schools
83,770
other buildings
88 of 159
health facilities
15%
Of The population is disabled
Literacy
64%
Males
57%
Females
50%
Children Do Not Attend School
30%
do not finish 3rd grade
60%
do not finish 6th grade
90%
of the schools require fees
The Caribbean Dream Fulfillment Center offers emergency services while teaching survivors how to artistically create products critical to their survival using only the resources readily available which do not need to be imported. Our participants collectively assess their own needs and envision the perfect Caribbean Dream product to sustainably meet that need. The most urgent needs being housing, water, food, employment, electricity, and health care.
What Is
Caribbean
Dream?
Stipends are provided to those being trained. Micro businesses are launched. Careers are established. Development of products requires many hours of research and development. Items produced at the Center are then provided free of charge to those in need, including to those who produce them.
To fund the Center, many products are available for sale on this website to help us continue our charitable and educational services. We invite you to explore the Caribbean Dream products you will want to buy! We hope you share them with others in your community! And share the story of our Caribbean Dream!
Employment
Housing
Recycling
Haitian amputees yearn to participate in their own recovery. But typically we are limited to charity. We believe we can do much more.
Our Dream began in 2011 by a group of 4 survivors sitting at a rehab clinic near the beach of Les Cayes, Haiti pondering the immense mountains of plastic waste they see along the coast and in the rivers. Mirose, Cerafin, Lynda and Maxene were aware plastic is a nasty breeding ground for water born diseases like malaria and cholera. They wanted to eliminate the hazard, and restore the beauty of Haiti. But from their dire perspective of extreme personal loss, they also felt the plastic itself MUST be a potential resource. They dreamed of using it in building materials and artistic products for the home. They planned a way they could participate in not just their own recovery, but in the recovery of all of Haiti.
Using the only resources at their dismal disposal (waste plastic), this team of 4 Haitian amputees painstakingly developed novel building panels, roof tiles, and a complete housing system. The food grade HDPE waste now creates sanitary water collection and roof tiles. Incorporating a steel frame and flexible cement, the PET and styrofoam waste now creates strong and insulative wall and roof panels. The whole building system is made to withstand a category 5 hurricane, and yet is transportable by donkey or motorcycle anywhere in Haiti. It is composed of many interchangeable components which can be rapidly assembled by simple wrenches in many floor plans.
Caribbean Dream Fulfillment Center allows participants to develop autonomy and determine their greatest needs. Purchases made go towards providing emergency services to Haitians in need and supporting the Center.
Help Fund
Our Caribbean
Dream
Fulfillment
Center
Empower
Entrepreneurs
at Caribbean
Kid Center
in Haiti
Support
Our Recycled
Material
Development
in Haiti
There are five ways you can help us realize our Caribbean Dream. Buy the products we make. Volunteer. Become a member organization. Sponsor an intern student or amputee trainee at our Fulfillment Center. Fund development of the Center itself. We are a 501(c)(3) non profit charitable and educational organization.
The Caribbean Dream Fulfillment Center is located just south of Leogane, Haiti, near the epicenter of the 2010 earthquake, and near the shipping port of Miragoane, Haiti. We are centrally located to be able to serve the Southern Haiti penninsula. Many of the products and components can be produced by our participants wherever they live, or they can be made at the center. Products and building kits are then distributed thoughout Haiti or to the address you choose through the Caribbean Dream Fulfillment Center! Let the Pearl of the Antilles surprise you and your friends with what we can do! Send a present from us. Be present with us.
Caribbean Dream Fulfillment Center allows participants to develop autonomy and determine their greatest needs. Donations are also used to provide emergency services to Haitians in need.
Meet The Caribbean Dream Staff
Mirose Lindner
Mirose is our lead visionary. She lead the development team for several novel building materials made from waste plastic. She now oversees four liaison officers at Caribbean Dream, inspires Haitian artists to dream of creative products, and connects you with the Caribbean product of YOUR dream.
Reynold Casseus
Reynold worked as an independent “tap-tap” taxi driver for about 20 years in Port au Prince. Reynold understands logistics and transportation in Haiti like the back of his hand. Reynold began working with us in 2013, and now supervises the Caribbean Dream Fulfillment Center in Haiti.
Souvienne Celestin
Souvienne oversees care for those in dire need in the earthquake ravaged Southern Haiti. As Liaison, she keeps well connected with Haitian community leaders and offers new opportunity for internally displaced Haitians, especially for those who have lost a limb. Souvienne is their host, as they seek sponsors through our ministry to participate in our mission and establish their own business.
Jude Jeangilles
Jude loves discovering talented artists throughout Haiti and providing them with an opportunity to help the displaced and disabled by telling their story through art, and by becoming teachers for new products developed at the Caribbean Dream Fulfillment Center.
Edith Simon
Edith cares for both Haitian and foreign student interns who come to develop their talents while serving the Caribbean community. Edith lost both legs below the knee when she was young. After interning under Mirose, she now inspires other amputees to see resources in what has been left behind.
Eddy Lindner
Eddy brings 30 years of experience coordinating economic development and disaster response programs through the Lutheran and Episcopal Church. Eddy is both a master home builder and an ordained ELCA pastor.
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HOPE
Why Haiti Needs
Your Help
From being declared “the Pearl of the Antilles”, Haiti is now considered the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti’s situation evolved from a long history of exploitation, corruption, political instability, and devastating natural disasters
In 2010 a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Southern Haiti, resulting in 250,000 deaths, forcing 1 1/2 million people to be homeless, and causing over 8,000 survivors to be amputees. In 2016 Hurricane Matthew leveled the transitional wood and tin reconstruction in Southern Haiti. In 2021 older concrete structures not destroyed by Matthew, fell in another 7.2 magnitude earthquake centered farther in the mountains. Over 1,200 schools were destroyed and all the major hospitals on the southern coast. Destruction of the hospitals meant more than 2,000 more amputations, mostly due to infection.
Our program is founded and run by some of these more than 10,000 Haitian amputees living in Southern Haiti. Our participants not only lost a limb, but have lost their house, church, school, hospital, and market. But the most crushing loss has been the loss of employment.
77%
live on less than $2 a day
50%
lack access to clean water
71%
have NO sanitation
For decades, Haiti has continued to be the poorest nation in the western hemisphere.
Millions of Haitians do not have access to clean water after the 2010 earthquake destroyed many sanitation systems.
Lack of sanitation has resulted in more illnesses and deaths related to epidemics and pandemics that have affected Haiti.
77%
live on less than $2 a day
For decades, Haiti has continued to be the poorest nation in the western hemisphere.
50%
lack access to clean water
Millions of Haitians do not have access to clean water after the 2010 earthquake destroyed many sanitation systems.
71%
have NO sanitation
Lack of sanitation has resulted in more illnesses and deaths related to epidemics and pandemics that have affected Haiti.
2021 earthquake destroyed
54,000
homes
1,200
Schools
83,770
other buildings
88 of 159
health facilities
15%
Of The population is disabled
Literacy
64%
Males
57%
Females
50%
Children Do Not Attend School
30%
do not finish 3rd grade
60%
do not finish 6th grade
90%
of the schools require fees
The Caribbean Dream Fulfillment Center offers emergency services while teaching survivors how to artistically create products critical to their survival using only the resources readily available which do not need to be imported. Our participants collectively assess their own needs and envision the perfect Caribbean Dream product to sustainably meet that need. The most urgent needs being housing, water, food, employment, electricity, and health care.
What Is
Caribbean
Dream?
Stipends are provided to those being trained. Micro businesses are launched. Careers are established. Development of products requires many hours of research and development. Items produced at the Center are then provided free of charge to those in need, including to those who produce them.
To fund the Center, many products are available for sale on this website to help us continue our charitable and educational services. We invite you to explore the Caribbean Dream products you will want to buy! We hope you share them with others in your community! And share the story of our Caribbean Dream!
Employment
Housing
Recycling
Haitian amputees yearn to participate in their own recovery. But typically we are limited to charity. We believe we can do much more.
Our Dream began in 2011 by a group of 4 survivors sitting at a rehab clinic near the beach of Les Cayes, Haiti pondering the immense mountains of plastic waste they see along the coast and in the rivers. Mirose, Cerafin, Lynda and Maxene were aware plastic is a nasty breeding ground for water born diseases like malaria and cholera. They wanted to eliminate the hazard, and restore the beauty of Haiti. But from their dire perspective of extreme personal loss, they also felt the plastic itself MUST be a potential resource. They dreamed of using it in building materials and artistic products for the home. They planned a way they could participate in not just their own recovery, but in the recovery of all of Haiti.
Using the only resources at their dismal disposal (waste plastic), this team of 4 Haitian amputees painstakingly developed novel building panels, roof tiles, and a complete housing system. The food grade HDPE waste now creates sanitary water collection and roof tiles. Incorporating a steel frame and flexible cement, the PET and styrofoam waste now creates strong and insulative wall and roof panels. The whole building system is made to withstand a category 5 hurricane, and yet is transportable by donkey or motorcycle anywhere in Haiti. It is composed of many interchangeable components which can be rapidly assembled by simple wrenches in many floor plans.
Caribbean Dream Fulfillment Center allows participants to develop autonomy and determine their greatest needs. Purchases made go towards providing emergency services to Haitians in need and supporting the Center.
Help Fund
Our Caribbean
Dream
Fulfillment
Center
Empower
Entrepreneurs
at Caribbean
Kid Center
in Haiti
Support
Our Recycled
Material
Development
in Haiti
There are five ways you can help us realize our Caribbean Dream. Buy the products we make. Volunteer. Become a member organization. Sponsor an intern student or amputee trainee at our Fulfillment Center. Fund development of the Center itself. We are a 501(c)(3) non profit charitable and educational organization.
The Caribbean Dream Fulfillment Center is located just south of Leogane, Haiti, near the epicenter of the 2010 earthquake, and near the shipping port of Miragoane, Haiti. We are centrally located to be able to serve the Southern Haiti penninsula. Many of the products and components can be produced by our participants wherever they live, or they can be made at the center. Products and building kits are then distributed thoughout Haiti or to the address you choose through the Caribbean Dream Fulfillment Center! Let the Pearl of the Antilles surprise you and your friends with what we can do! Send a present from us. Be present with us.
Caribbean Dream Fulfillment Center allows participants to develop autonomy and determine their greatest needs. Donations are also used to provide emergency services to Haitians in need.
Meet The Caribbean Dream Staff
Mirose Lindner
Mirose is our lead visionary. She lead the development team for several novel building materials made from waste plastic. She now oversees four liaison officers at Caribbean Dream, inspires Haitian artists to dream of creative products, and connects you with the Caribbean product of YOUR dream.
Reynold Casseus
Reynold worked as an independent “tap-tap” taxi driver for about 20 years in Port au Prince. Reynold understands logistics and transportation in Haiti like the back of his hand. Reynold began working with us in 2013, and now supervises the Caribbean Dream Fulfillment Center in Haiti.
Souvienne Celestin
Souvienne oversees care for those in dire need in the earthquake ravaged Southern Haiti. As Liaison, she keeps well connected with Haitian community leaders and offers new opportunity for internally displaced Haitians, especially for those who have lost a limb. Souvienne is their host, as they seek sponsors through our ministry to participate in our mission and establish their own business.
Jude Jeangilles
Jude loves discovering talented artists throughout Haiti and providing them with an opportunity to help the displaced and disabled by telling their story through art, and by becoming teachers for new products developed at the Caribbean Dream Fulfillment Center.
Edith Simon
Edith cares for both Haitian and foreign student interns who come to develop their talents while serving the Caribbean community. Edith lost both legs below the knee when she was young. After interning under Mirose, she now inspires other amputees to see resources in what has been left behind.
Eddy Lindner
Eddy brings 30 years of experience coordinating economic development and disaster response programs through the Lutheran and Episcopal Church. Eddy is both a master home builder and an ordained ELCA pastor.
