Six challenges. One broken system.
Haiti's rural crises are not independent — they reinforce each other. Any solution that addresses only one will fail. Lakou Haiti is designed to break the cycle as a whole.
Youth unemployment
Over 60% of Haitian youth lack stable work, fueling migration and instability.
Food insecurity
Half of Haitians face acute food insecurity. Domestic production has collapsed.
Environmental collapse
Less than 2% of original forest cover remains. Soil erosion accelerates each year.
Water & sanitation
Most rural communities lack reliable potable water and basic sanitation systems.
Aid fragmentation
Decades of disconnected interventions have failed to build lasting local capacity.
Weak rural infrastructure
Roads, energy, and housing gaps trap families in cycles of poverty and displacement.
The pattern repeats.
When a young person cannot find work, they migrate. When farmland erodes, food costs rise. When water is unsafe, illness drains household income. When aid bypasses local capacity, communities never get to lead. Lakou Haiti tackles all of these at once, in one place — replicable across the country.