united nations international school haiti disaster response

UNIS Responds to the Haitian Earthquake

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Overview

1. Proposal Objectives

2. Proposed Solutions

3. Benefits of Proposed Solutions

4. Proposed Procedures



Proposal objectives

1. Examine the impact of the Earthquake on the Haitian people and explore their needs

2. Identify sustainable economic development solutions to reduce poverty, rebuild the country and promote self-reliance of the Haitian people

3. Explore how UNIS can respond to the aforementioned articulated needs in a meaningful manner that has immediate and long-term benefits to Haitians and their country

4. Articulate how the UNIS community can benefit from UNIS’ response to the crisis



Solutions Actors

UNIS Response Matrix

UNIS Made in Haiti T-shirt Initiative

UNIS Scholarships for Haitian Refugees or Students from Sister School

UNIS- led

UNIS

Haitian Sister School Adoption

UNIS Student Conference on Rebuilding Haiti

UNIS

UNIS-led

Short- Term(0 – 3 months)

Medium-Term(4 – 12 months)

Timeframe

Although there remains tremendous clean-up followed by reconstruction, we believe that concurrent to these activities there should also be a concerted effort to get Haitians back to work. Only in so doing will there be a return to normalcy and a minimization on the social and psychological ills that will inevitably follow.Additionally, traditional and trade schools need to be engaged to increase and build local capacity.

ISL School garment project UNIS-ledLong-Term(6 months+ )



UNIS-Haiti T- Shirt Initiative

Design, production and marketing of a $25-50 “Get Haitians Back to Work” T-shirt that will eventually

be “Made in Haiti.” The proceeds from the initial t-shirt run (100 count) will be used to seed the recurring

production of t-shirts and other school-related apparel, in Haiti.

Eventually, funds will go towards funding the Haitian scholarship and sister school, and skills training for

factory workers

UNIS students to design the t-shirts; online merchant / students / alumni to market the t-shirts; and

Haitian factory to produce the t-shirts

UNIS students to engage students from other ISL schools in NYC to market the t-shirts to their students

as well. School with the most sales could win VIP tickets to a Wyclef Haiti benefit concert

Initiative would be supported by a UNIS-led PR effort to garner interest in the project

UNIS will act as a catalyst in extending the T-shirt initiative to other schools in the New York Metro area

to increase orders and provide more job opportunities to the Haitian people



UNIS-Haiti T- Shirt Initiative

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UNIS Scholarships

Potentially using funds raised from the t-shirt initiative in conjunction with donor

contributions for scholarships to be awarded limited to Haitian orphans or students

from the proposed sister school

The scholarships would enable the recipients the opportunity to experience the UNIS

education

Host families would have to be identified from the Haitian Diaspora

Living costs would have to be supplemented as well



Haitian Sister School Adoption

UNIS would identify a suitable sister to school to adopt that it would provide teaching

materials, teachers and alumni volunteers to help it re-build

A suitable candidate could be a school with relatively similar academic standards to

those of UNIS and one which was devastated by the quake

The sister school could serve as host to UNIS students who choose to travel to Haiti

during the their vacations



UNIS Student Conference on Re-building Haiti

The conference would be focused on understanding the impact of the devastation and identifying

ways in which student groups can contribute to the re-building of Haiti in the short-term and develop

a sustainable disaster response model in the long-term

UNIS students / faculty would plan the conference (with assistance from alumni) and invite students

from Model UN clubs around Manhattan to participate as delegates at the United Nations

Prospective and current UNIS donors (foundations / corporations); and Haitian diplomats / civil

society leaders would be invited to observe conference as a means for them to experience the

existing and potential “Return-on-Investment” of their funds

Conference would be integrated into existing UNIS event calendar: Student Conference on Human Rights – December 2010 UN Day – October 24 2010 UNIS / UN Conference – March 2011



Benefits - Haiti

Support existing and help to create new jobs in Haiti

Assist in the alleviation of poverty in Haiti

Increase self-reliance of Haitian people

Cross-cutting benefits include:

Empowerment of unemployed youths and women

Local capacity building (training and development)



Benefits – UNIS Community

Strengthen the UNIS Brand:

UNIS to be recognized as developing an innovative and

sustainable fund raising model that moves beyond typical

“Band-Aid” relief to providing long-term solutions to the Haitian

people

Increase fund raising capabilities for UNIS by engaging

existing and prospective donors, and the media

Position UNIS as a thought leader (in an area uniquely suited to

its mission) among schools around the country

Increase collaboration between UNIS community

Enrich the UNIS experience through sister school relationship

and possible student exchanges



Haiti – The Best is Yet To Come!


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