Jubilee Blanc

• Jubilee Blanc is an impoverished suburb of Gonaives, Haiti. Gonaives is in northern Haiti and is the capital city of the Artibonite Department.
• Jubilee Blanc is near the ocean and built on salt flats. It is dusty and dry most of the year, but also prone to flooding during the rainy season.
• Gonaives and Jubilee Blanc were devastated by major hurricanes in 2004 and 2008.
• Jubilee Blanc is one of the poorest communities in Haiti, truly “one of the least of these.” (Matthew 25:40)

About Haiti

• Caribbean island country of 9.2 million people
• Discovered by Columbus in 1492
• Haiti won its independence from France on January 1, 1804.
• Poorest country in the Western Hemisphere
• 80% of the population lives below the poverty line and the average income is less than $2/day.
• More than two-thirds of the labor force does not have formal jobs.
• Approximately half of the population is illiterate.
• At least one-third of Haitian children suffer from malnutrition and stunted growth.
• Less than 50% of Haitian children complete primary school