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HCUT offers you an opportunity to make a positive impact in the life of a Haitian brother and
sister right here in the USA/Haiti by volunteering your time, donate your fund and any other resources.
HCUT is need of individual with legal, finance, marketing, grant writing to join the board of directors. Please contact us if you interested by calling us at 561-255-4445.
HCUT wants to hear from you. Do you have a few hours a month that you would like to share by teaching a small group of adults to read, learning basic computer literacy, teach soft job skills, money management, becoming self sufficient to micro business, what it takes to become a U.S. Citizen?
Please forward us a short note through the link below.admin@haitiancitizenunited.org
Background info about Haiti: | Caribbean, western one-third of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Dominican Republic |
Geographic coordinates: | 19 00 N, 72 25 W |
Map references: | Central America and the Caribbean |
Area: | total: 27,750 sq km |
Area - comparative: | Slightly smaller than Maryland |
Land boundaries: | Total: 360 km |
Coastline: | 1,771 km |
Maritime claims: | territorial sea: 12 nm |
Climate: | tropical; semiarid where mountains in east cut off trade winds |
Terrain: | Mostly rough and mountainous |
Elevation extremes: | Lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m |
Natural resources: | Bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, gold, marble, hydropower |
Land use: | arable land: 28.11% |
Irrigated land: | 920 sq km (2003) |
Total renewable water resources: | 14 cu km (2000) |
Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural): | total:
0.99 cu km/yr (5%/1%/94%) |
Natural hazards: | Lies in the middle of the hurricane belt and subject to severe storms from June to October; occasional flooding and earthquakes; periodic droughts |
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