Jubilee Blanc is an impoverished suburb of Gonaives, Haiti. Gonaives is in northern Haiti and is the capital city of the Artibonite Department.

Jubilee Blanc is near the ocean and built on salt flats. It is dusty and dry most of the year, but also prone to flooding during the rainy season.

Gonaives and Jubilee Blanc were devastated by major hurricanes in 2004 and 2008.

Jubilee Blanc is one of the poorest communities in Haiti, truly “one of the least of these.” (Matthew 25:40)

Caribbean island country of 9.2 million people

Discovered by Columbus in 1492

Haiti won its independence from France on January 1, 1804.

Poorest country in the Western Hemisphere

Two-thirds of the population lives below the poverty line and nearly a quarter live in extreme poverty.

Approximately half of the population is illiterate.

At least one-third of Haitian children suffer from malnutrition and stunted growth.

Less than 50% of Haitian children complete primary school