Quixote Center’s work in Haiti prioritizes systemic change. Our theory of change has three aspects:
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Quixote Center partners with the Montfortain Fathers for a variety of projects in the Gros Morne area. Historically we have supported the Jean Marie Vincent Formation Center, which houses a tree nursery, a model instructional garden and multiple classrooms for training small-scale farmers. With our support, the JMV Center also maintains the Tet Mon model forest, a reforestation project that is the only one of its kind in the region. The JMV team holds formation sessions on reforestation and tree maintenance for local leaders, schoolchildren, and agronomy students.
Quixote Center also partners with the Montfortain-led LaChandle parish to support displaced people who fled to the Gros Morne area as a result of internal violence or deportations. With our support, the parish has sponsored programs to keep children in school and provide child-safe spaces to prevent gang recruitment. We have also provided cash assistance for the parents so that they can start small businesses and stabilize their income.
DCCH, a member of Caritas, partnered with Quixote Center in 2023 to conduct a needs assessment among rural communities around Les Cayes to identify investment priorities. After consulting with hundreds of community members through interviews and focus groups, together we designed a project that provides targeted investments in agroecological training, animal care, and women empowerment through microloans and small business ventures. In 2025, we launched the Socio-Economic Recovery Program as a scalable and replicable pilot project working with 100 rural families reaching up to 1000 people. This community-led initiative aims to improve their income and food security while building resilience and eliminating dependence on outside assistance. DCCH distributes seeds and livestock as loans where recipients return the same quantity of seeds and the first offspring to the program for redistribution. In 2026 we included an additional 100 families.
Read the final report from the 2025 pilot HERE.
The current situation is marked by two types of climate: a natural climate and a political climate.
The natural climate can be described in two forms: a rainy period and a storm in the making. On the other hand, the political climate balances between insecurity and elections.
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Since January 2025, Quixote Center has partnered with DCCH (Développement Communautaire Chrétien Haitien) to strengthen agriculture, livestock, and the social and solidarity economy among farming families in Gouin, Sainte-Hélène, Archambeau, and Tricon, in Haiti’s Southern Department. The goal is to equip rural families with the knowledge, resources, and collective strength to improve their livelihoods and withstand growing environmental challenges.
Last week, the government of El Salvador sent 2,000 troops to Haiti following the disappearance of four Salvadoran military technicians during an ambush by armed gangs. The mission and scope of engagement of the Salvadoran troops is unclear. The Salvadoran technicians remain missing and are likely to have been killed.
This week, Quixote Center attended a Haiti TPS briefing, hosted by Haitian Bridge Alliance, as well as experts from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and
Following the revocation of TPS and the commencement of mass deportations to Haiti, many Haitians have been forced to seek refuge in Mexico.
Content Trigger Warning: Sexual & Gender-Based Violence
News of the “Cornell 7” is everywhere. Details emerge of a young woman drugged and raped in a fraternity house and the lack of consequences to the men. The press releases images of group texts offering this woman up to anyone in the house. 57 men were on that group chat.
This week Quixote Center learned that the town of Gros Morne, Haiti, the location of our long-term partnerships, was the victim of a horrific gang massacre. Haiti’s criminal gangs utilize weapons they obtain illegally from the United States.
Headlines about Haiti often focus on insecurity, poverty, and corruption. But every day, Haitians are working to build stronger, healthier, more prosperous communities. Young entrepreneurs are leading the way.
Climate change is real. In Haiti, subsistence agriculture remains a primary livelihood in rural areas. Unpredictable cycles of drought and flooding quickly turn promising harvests into devastating loss.
By Father Wilnes Tilus, Executive Director, DCCH
Lately, the entire world has been bearing the brunt of climate change. In some countries, the land is literally burning, destroying forests, homes, and public infrastructure. In others, it's volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes, and even tsunamis. Faced with humanity's mismanagement of the land, nature is striking back.
Haiti is also bearing the brunt of it.
The US administration has unleashed ICE into the streets of Springfield to target Haitians who had their legal status stripped away. Many leave immigration check-ins with ankle monitors. Haitians are so far the only group to be humiliated that way, and it is also the first time these devices are deployed on non-criminals.
ICE also detained pastors Adrien and Dumano, two Haitian leaders who have lived in the US for over a decade and who provided essential spiritual and mental health support to the community.
There is sunshine, nice rivers and great drinks
Underneath the trees, you'll always find great shade
Where you'll find a gentle breeze to keep you cool
Haiti, is a country dear to me
Excerpted from a 1925 poem by Othello Bayard
