ABOUT BROWN HORSE PROJECTS

God has called our team to work alongside, encourage, uplift and love on our brothers and sisters on the island of Hispaniola in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Brown Horse Projects has been traveling there with various teams and many willing participants for more than a decade. Over this time, our eyes have been opened to poverty unlike anything we've seen in other travels and mission trips, to spiritual confusion and un-Godly practices, to disease, dirt, destruction and devastation. But when God reveals things in the world that require our attention, He also provides a way. His way for our team in Haiti and the DR was led by an opening of our hearts, so that what we see in the country is so much more beautiful than what meets the eye. In Haitian people we see warriors, princesses, princes, humble servants and kind-hearted men and women, farmers, teachers, engineers, students, we see people who've been mistreated, discarded, underestimated and are working to survive and make their tiny piece of this big world a better place for their children and their children's children. We see our friends. We see their families and we return to share love. ❤️

 

Friends, the need is great.

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• Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with 59% of the population living under the national poverty line.

• There is widespread unemployment, an estimated 15% of the labor force is seeking employment.

• There is a widespread lack of access to food. Due to high food prices, natural disasters, sociopolitical turmoil, and worsening insecurity 4.9 million people are projected to face acute food insecurity and are in need of urgent food assistance (2023).

• Nearly 10% of children under the age of 5 are underweight.

• Life expectancy among women is 67 years in Haiti and 74 in the Dominican (83 in the US), and men 64 years in Haiti, 71 years in the Dominican (78 in the US).

• Physician density in Haiti is 0.23 physicians per 1,000 population, 1.45 in the Dominican and 2.61 in the US (2018).

• More than 50% of Haitians live without electricity.

• Haiti is in desperate need of an updated telecommunication network.

• Haiti has has no President since the assassination of Jovenel Moise in 2021.

• Unauthorized migration and smuggling from impoverished and unstable Haiti has led to occasional border tensions and increased security by the Dominican Republic, including the construction of a fence and the deployment of military troops. Immigrants from Haiti living in the DR are often treated poorly. (2024)​

 

*source: CIA, World Fact Book January 2025