Katizana art workshops bring hope to inmates amid Haiti’s increasing prison challenges
The Katizana initiative currently faces shortages of funding, exhibition venues and promotion for inmate-created artwork. Challenges that have worsened due to the insecurity that destroyed some of the organization’s workshops inside Haiti’s prisons. Serving as a vital lifeline to meet prisoners’ basic needs and sustain their hope for freedom, the initiative is preparing to offer inmates training sessions, hot meals and hygiene kits between August and December, despite ongoing violence that limits movement and sales of its creative works. The […]