Haiti Orphanage & Children's Center

Every story about green building is a story about people.

Project Haiti Orphanage and Children's Center is about the people of Haiti who are facing ongoing devastation following the earthquake of January 2010. It's about a replicable, resilient model for rebuilding.

There are hundreds of thousands of orphans living in Haiti. Project Haiti will tell many of these children for the first time in their lives they are valued, they deserve to breathe clean air, they have the right to live in comfort and they are cared about - just like any other child, in any other place in the world. It will provide for the immediate health and emotional needs of orphans and offer a pathway to adoption.

Together with dedicated pro bono design partner HOK, the U.S. Green Building Council is catalyzing the unrivaled passion, expertise and generosity of the green building movement to rebuild this orphanage. We will provide the people of Haiti with both a powerful symbol of hope and a model for sustainable building practices.

100 percent of funds donated to the Haiti Orphanage and Children's Center will be used exclusively for expenses relating to the design and construction of a LEED® certified orphanage in Port au Prince, Haiti. None of the funds designated for this project will be used to pay for other USGBC programmatic activities or organizational overhead. If USGBC receives donations that exceed the cost of the project, USGBC will use such funds either for the design and construction of additional Haitian orphanages, or for the operation of such orphanages.