Jan 12, 2010 was a day we ALL remember.  Approximately, 200,000 lives were lost, an estimated 2 million are homeless, and 10 months after the earthquake, a country is still completely devastated. Millions of dollars have been raised to help aid the people of Haiti, but the earthquake’s devastation has continually caused despair.

The earthquake robbed the Haitians of their families, their belongings and any semblance of life. Months have passed, but the Haitians‘ lives are still in disrepair. The tent communities they call home have become breeding grounds for rape. Sex-for-food and sex-for-shelter are becoming a common daily practice. These tent communities were set up as an immediate band-aid to the earthquake’s devastation, but now have only further aggravated Haiti’s problems—increasing social destabilization, poverty, and violence. We find it incomprehensible that mothers are watching their daughters as they are raped, that children as young as two have “gonorrhea in the mouth”, and that every day is lived in fear.

SLEEP IN PEACE is a campaign and alliance, we are building to rehabilitate Haiti’s communities:

WWW.SLEEPINPEACENOW.ORG

OUR GOAL is to shed further light on this immense fear and violence that has permeated the tent communities of Haiti, and to ensure that Haiti is not forgotten. It is a ‘call to arms’ to provide secure & safe housing, shelters, and safe havens.

SLEEP IN PEACE has been now endorsed by 8 Haitian mayors and the World Conference of Mayors!

SO LETS BUILD SOME HOUSES!