Michelle Karshan and staff and participants of Alternative Chance/Chans Altenativ in Haiti
 
ALTERNATIVE CHANCE/CHANS ALTENATIV
A self-help, advocacy program for criminal deportees in Haiti
 
 
March 28, 2008 Alternative Chance/Michelle Karshan response to 2007 US State Dept Report issued March 11, 2008
challenges assertions made regarding treatment of Criminal Deportees arriving in Haiti
 
 
Articles about Criminal Deportation to Haiti, Alternative Chance, and Criminal Deportation in general
Articles on Alternative Chance, Criminal Deportees, Criminal Deportation and Haiti
 
 
CONTACT US
Mailing, telephone, email, fax -- contact information
 
 
ATTENTION ATTORNEYS
For attorneys fighting criminal deportation from the United States
 
 
HOW YOU CAN HELP!
Donate money or materials, Volunteer in Haiti or the US.
 
 
Press Releases and Alerts
Alternative Chance Press Releases and Alerts on Haiti and Criminal Deportees/Deportation
 
 
Very Brief Overview of Haitian Government Response to Criminal Deportation to Haiti
Criminal Deportation to Haiti and Haitian government response
 
 
June 2006 Note on Our Work
Overview of Chans Altenativ work and thinking
 
 
Preliminary Report by Michelle Karshan on Police Executions & Torture of Criminal Deportees in Haiti 2004-2006
Criminal Deportees are often targeted for execution solely because of tatoos, the way they wear their clothes, gold teeth, and different behavoir and walk
 
 
Brief Overview of Haiti's Recent History
Haiti history for context
 
 
WHERE AM I? A Guide to Adjusting to Haiti Against Your Will (Excerpt)
This manual provides new criminal deportees in Haiti with an orientation on numerous subjects
 
 
Criminal Deportees in Haiti Receive No Food or Water in Jail
Criminal Deportees receive no food or water when imprisoned upon arriving in Haiti
 
 
Photos & Photo Credits
Photos of Alternative Chance and life in Haiti for criminal deportees
 
 
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Our Outcast Youth
Short documentary by David Belle about Alternative Chance as told by three young men
 
 
LINKS
Resources: Our partners and other valuable resources
 
 
Links to Job Training, Job Readiness, and More
Job training, Job readiness, Job resources
 
 
Alternative Chance Haitian Art Gallery
Help support our work by visiting our Haitian Art Gallery
 
 
Are You a United States Citizen?
Comprehensive breakdown by the Florence Project on what makes someone a US citizen
 
 
Women Criminal Deportees in Haiti
International Women's Day and Women Criminal Deportees in Haiti
 
 
May 21, 2007 Advisory on the Continued Detention of Criminal Deportees Arriving in Haiti
Michelle Karshan documents Haiti's continued detention of Haiti's Criminal Deportees
 
 
New life is no life for U.S. ex-cons in Haiti
Chicago Tribune article about criminal deportees in Haiti
 
 
Haitian government announces it will imprison all Criminal Deportees arriving in Haiti
Metropolehaiti, August 16, 2006, Haitian government announces it will put arriving Criminal Deportees in prison
 
 
Overview of Alternative Chance/Chans Altenativ Past and Future Activities for Criminal Deportees in Haiti & those Challenging Criminal Deportation to Haiti, October 15, 2007
Priority Issues, Upcoming Family Camp, Collaborations, Human Rights Awards, Annual Benefit
 
 
Alternative Chance/Chans Altenativ 2nd Annual Awards & Fundraising Dinner
Alternative Chance/Chans Altenativ to hold annual dinner at Tap Tap Haitian Restaurant in South Beach November 8, 2007
 
 
Alternative Chance/Chans Altenativ Family Camp
First camp uniting children with their deported parent in Haiti for structured retreat
 
 
Donation/Reservation form
Fill in form to make donation, donate frequent flyer miles, or make reservations for annual dinner
 
 
Cases of Respondents Who Fear Imprisonment as Criminal Deportees to Haiti:
Haitian CAT cases since J-E
 
 

Alternative Chance/Chans Altenativ 2nd Annual Awards & Fundraising Dinner

Dinner Reservation, Donation & Frequent Flyer Donation Form

Please join us for this year's

Alternative Chance/Chans Altenativ
2nd Annual Awards & Fundraising Dinner
at
Tap Tap Restaurant
in South Beach!

11 Years of Services & Advocacy for Haiti's Criminal Deportees

Host: Michelle Karshan

SPECIAL GUESTS OF HONOR

Cheryl Little, Esq., Executive Director of Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center

Valerie Burch, Esq., attorney for Lavira in 3rd Circuit

Location: Tap Tap Restaurant
819 Fifth Street, South Beach, Miami Beach, FL 33139

When: Thursday, November 8, 6:00 PM to 9:00PM
(Live Music & Dancing to follow)

Join attorneys, activists, families, friends, and others for an evening of solidarity and Haitian culture at the beautiful Tap Tap Restaurant in South Beach

Human Rights Awards 2007
(In alphabetical order) Neely Alceus-Hensley, Valerie Burch, Esq., Brian Concannon,Esq., Renal Durosier, Paul Farmer, MD, Deepa Fernandes, Cathy Goretsky, Stevenson Jean-Paul, Evans Joseph, Cheryl Little, Esq., Daniel Salcedo, Evens Sanon, Rebecca Sharpless, Esq., Jessica Zaiger, Esq., are some of the people who will receive Human Rights Awards this year in recognition of their continuous and courageous engagement on behalf of Haitian Criminal Deportees or those facing deportation to Haiti. We will also have a special welcome and thanks for Kelleen Corrigan, Esq. of FIAC, who is our contact/resource attorney at FIAC.

Haitian Dinner, Photo Exhibit, Crafts Sales, Silent Auction, Tap Tap live music & dancing to follow

Per Person: $60

RSVP required

(checks can be made out to Parish Twinning Program of the Americas and mailed to Alternative Chance, 70A Greenwich Avenue, Suite 373, New York, NY 10011)

(Last year's dinner, held in New York, enjoyed Ira J. Kurzban, Esq. and Dr. John P. May as the Special Guests of Honor, and was attended by many key persons who traveled from Miami, Boston, Philadelphia, Virginia, Pompano Beach, etc.)

We are happy to announce that we will be holding our first Family Camp in February 2008 which will reunite US citizen children of deported (criminal deportees) parents with their parent in Haiti during a five day retreat in Haiti.


--
Michelle Karshan
Executive Director
Alternative Chance/Chans Altenativ
70A Greenwich Avenue, #373
New York, New York 10011
Answering service: 212-613-6033
Internet FAX: 1-212-202-3992
In Haiti: 011509-490-0782
In US: 347-281-2958
Skype: Michelle.Karshan
www.alternativechance.org
Email: altchance@aol.com

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