united nations international school haiti disaster response
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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
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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
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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+ )
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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
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UNIS-Haiti T- Shirt Initiative
DesignTBDBy
UNIS Students
Illustration
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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Haiti – The Best is Yet To Come!