"Who can change the world without me?"

- Ivenson, youth delegate from Haiti

After the earthquake in Haiti, the ATD Fourth World team assisted in the start of the rebuilding. It also interviewed people living in poverty who were receiving food aid about their vision for the Haiti of the future and sent a report, “Yon vwa pou pep la” (One Voice for the People) to the United Nations' international donors conference. Delegates from Haiti participate in a number of different projects. In Bebe Bienvenue, the team works with new parents to make sure they can feed and care for their new babies, as well as learn how to play with and read to them as they grow. There is also a community health center run by ATD Fourth World where families living in poverty can have low-cost or free healthcare. Soon after the earthquake the ATD team also restarted Street Libraries in poverty-stricken n eighborhoods and in a camp for displaced people to make sure that the children were still learning and developing, even while the schools remained closed. Many of the adult delegates who are coming from Haiti have participated in the “Fourth World Gathering Committee,” which plans, puts into place, and evaluates projects run by the ATD team, as well as discussing social issues in a monthly meeting and organizing the annual commemoration of October 17. All of this is in addition to struggling daily to make ends meet. Amcess, a child delegate, writes, “I don't have a lot of friends because sometimes people make fun of me. I help my mother to serve others because one day I know that we'll be the ones who need them.”

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