Haïti

RET intervened in Haiti soon after the devastating earthquake of 2010.

The needs for essential services (protection, information, education) were urgently lacking, with specific gaps in secondary level education that no other NGOs on the ground were providing. RET assisted young people who had been affected by the earthquake to overcome their trauma and acquire the attitudes and skills needed to achieve positive social integration and complete their studies successfully. The activities provided include after-school support and life skills, including critical thinking, decision-making, and interpersonal and communication skills. RET offered vulnerable youth apprenticeships in trades such as carpentry and construction, which were needed trades to build their communities.

RET’s operations in Haiti ceased in 2012, but RET continues to monitor fragile situations in the Americas region and work to protect vulnerable adolescents and youth made vulnerably by displacement, violence, armed conflicts and disasters (see our Belize,  Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, or Venezuela pages for more details).