Artists and directors of ArtsHaiti are happy to announce that Cap Haitien was far north of the 12 January earthquake and L’École L’Amitie is intact and free of any injuries. The children continue to show outstanding progress.

Streams of wounded arrive daily in Cap Haitien and Milot hospitals and everyone mourns the loss of relatives and friends in Port-au-Prince, Petit Goave and Jacmel. We have seen that all the colleges and universities in the capital collapsed with severe loss of lives of students, faculty and staff and that there is scarcely a school that is now usable for classes to resume. Several art collections and the famous Sainte Trinité murals are shattered or heavily damaged. Art schools and studios are in ruins. Surviving artists and educators are hard at work helping to distribute water and food and are trying to protect works of art and other national treasures so they can be restored once human emergency needs are met.

Knowing that education and creative expression are essential to the survival of a people and a nation, for this year of 2010 we will allocate all profits from sales to the rebuilding of educational and arts institutions in the earthquake region.

We hope you will consider owning a small piece of Haiti in order to contribute to the massive efforts of restoration that begin now.