Pederec INC.

07/01/2017

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06/05/2017

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06/18/2015

It is about an issue of Human rights. No country should determine citizenship of a people base on the color of skin. What ever that is happening in the Dominican Republic is wrong, and constitutes a form of ethnic cleansing, and should be condemn by the global community in its entirety. If the Dominican Republic can not stop this senseless human rights violations, and pay for damages for crimes committed against people of Haitian origin simply because of their color, the Dominican Republic should be ostracized from the community of civilized nations.

The Dominican Republic stripped citizenship from thousands of black Dominicans with Haitian ancestors. Now it may expel them to Haiti, a country many have never known.

05/15/2015

On Sunday, President Francois Hollande announced during the official unveiling of the Memorial ACTe in Point-A-Pitre, Guadeloupe, that he will evoked France’s “debt” towards Haiti. On Tuesday he be...

05/15/2015

PEDEREC is a not for profit organization with headquarters in the Washington DC area with mission to provides community resource centers where community members can participate in determining the needs of their community.

05/15/2015

05/15/2015

PEDEREC AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT

WHAT IS PEDEREC? PEDEREC INC. is an organization created to work with communities to empower community members as a means of improving community wellbeing. This is to be achieved through creating community resource centers, where community members can participate in determining the needs of each community. Our approach is to look for common solutions through an enhanced networking of stakeholders within communities, whether they are private, nonprofit making or governmental and share a community priority of meeting needs of underprivileged, vulnerable, or populations in crisis situations.

Our Goals

I. Creating an avenue for vulnerable and disadvantaged community members to come together,

II. Acting as facilitators for identifying community problems affecting vulnerable sectors of the society,

III. Networking with other stakeholders to identify resources for solving such problems,

IIII. Raising funds for projects geared towards such community problems and thereby

V. Building stronger and more resilient communities as the means towards improving community lives.

Community empowerment according to the world health organization refers to the process of enabling communities to increase control over their lives. We are beginning this in Haiti, by participating with community members in Haiti, identifying the problem areas and designing projects that can help empower Haitian communities to increase control over their lives. Though there are enormous challenges ahead of us, we know that training young and determined individuals interested in a Haiti where there are opportunities for vulnerable sectors of the society, is a step in the right direction. At the moment, all that we have in PEDEREC, are, good people, willing to volunteer their time and through our expertise, develop the necessary skills to make their society as well as their communities a better place. We do believe that as a global community we may be many, may look different, talk different, have different cultures and languages, but after all is said and done, are in reality just one global community with similar challenges.

It might have been a very unusual place to train, but on the balcony, on a sunny Haitian afternoon, with the beautiful city behind us, nothing else could have compared! Bravo Haiti!

05/14/2015

The meeting of saturday May 9th 2015We have met at sixte o'clock at epid'or. All members of the team was there on time. The points which was at the center of our discussions are: a reminder about what is Pederec, its mission and goal. We were talking about the arrival of Mister Ribert in Haïti. We have talked about the training( the local that we already set up on, the schedule. So according that we think May 14th will be the best day to be avalaible to assist to the training.

04/28/2015

04/27/2015

Poverty is a chronic disease that we must, each individual at a time, participate it wherever it is found. How we do this remains a challenge for governments, non-governmental organizations, and the international community alike. However, we at PEDEREC believe we must fight poverty by including local populations in participatory decision making processes, if poverty must be eliminated. This can not be done through International aid alone, but we must achieve this through community participatory empowerment.

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