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
 
 
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Mission and Partners
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Media Coverage
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Brochure in plain format
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Annual Awards & Benefit Dinner
November 22, 2008 benefit
 
 
How You Can Help.
Your help is vital to our work.
 
 
June 2006 Note on Our Work
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Women Criminal Deportees in Haiti
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New life is no life for U.S. ex-cons in Haiti
Chicago Tribune article about criminal deportees in Haiti
 
 
Continue to Suspend Deportation to Haiti by Michelle Karshan
Sun Sentinel article by Michelle Karshan
 
 
Alternative Chance documents conditions and human rights concerns on behalf of criminal deportees in 2009 in letter to UNHCR
Alternative Chance list of concerns re conditions of criminal deportees in Haiti. Addressed to UNHCR in 2009
 
 
Being Deported to Post Earthquake Haiti by Michelle Karshan, Alternative Chance
Alternative Chance warns of life threatening conditions and death by cholera if people are deported to Haiti
 
 

Annual Awards & Benefit Dinner


Dinner Reservation, Donation & Frequent Flyer Donation Form


(Unfortunately we have not held a fundraising benefit in many years. This info is from 2008 and it was a lot of fun.)

Please join us for this year's (2008) 

Alternative Chance/Chans Altenativ
3rd Annual Awards & Fundraising Dinner

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

Host: Michelle Karshan

SPECIAL GUESTS OF HONOR

Brian Concannon, Jr.,Esq. Director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (http://ijdh.org/board.htm)

Matthew Blaisdell, student attorney, Immigration Justice Clinic, John Jay Legal Services, Inc. and founder of the HaitiCAT group

Location: Belarusian Church, 401 Atlantic Avenue at corner of Bond Street, downtown Brooklyn, New York 11217

When: Saturday, November 22, 2008

Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00PM

Human Rights Awards * Photo/Video presentations * Crafts Sales * Silent Auction * Live Music * Haitian Dinner

Join attorneys, activists, families, friends, and others for an evening of solidarity and Haitian culture!

Human Rights Awards 2008

Antigone Bartone
Matthew Blaisdell
Timothy Block, Esq.
Joseph Alain Charles
Kelleen Corrigan, Esq.
Harry Desire
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
The Hastings to Haiti Partnership of UC Hastings Law School (Prof. Karen Musalo, Prof. Richard Boswell, Blaine Bookey and Asha Wilkerson)
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Bryan Lonegan, Esq.
Prof. Vanessa Merton
Post-Deportation Human Rights Project of Boston College Law School (Prof. Mary Holper, Prof. Daniel Kanstroom, Prof. Rachel Rosenbloom)
Renee C. Redman, Esq.
Benjamin D. Yerger, Esq.

Per Person: $100

RSVP required


(Past guests of honor were Cheryl Little, Esq., Valerie Burch, Esq., Ira J. Kurzban, Esq. and Dr. John P. May (Health through Walls).

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Michelle Karshan
Executive Director
Alternative Chance/Chans Altenativ 

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