NEW YORK – On Monday, January 10, 2011, leading voices in the fight to end global poverty will come together to recognize what the Haitian people have been able to accomplish while facing insurmountable odds. The event marks the one year anniversary of the devastating Haitian earthquake that captured the attention of the world.
The program and reception is being hosted by Fonkoze, Haiti’s largest and most innovative microfinance organization that has helped hundreds of thousands of Haitians on the path out of poverty. It will feature Dr. Paul Farmer, Founder of Partners in Health and UN Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn; and Elizabeth Littlefield, President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation appointed by President Obama.
Fonkoze reaches 220,000 Haitian families and brings together 45,000 driven Haitian women working to lift themselves, their families, and their nation out of poverty. Through a nationwide network of almost 2,000 poverty-fighting centers, Fonkoze is the institution on which Haiti’s poor have relied, especially during crisis, since 1994.
