The (I AM) CARE FOR HAITI Music Project (Coming August 2010)

The (I AM) CARE FOR
HAITI Music Project

NEW YORK, NY, March 25, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ — America’s top
Grammy nominated artists and internationally celebrated musicians have
partnered with R&B singer and musician Melky Jean to launch a
worldwide effort to benefit women and children in Haiti and to end
poverty in the region. Entitled The (I AM) CARE FOR HAITI Music Project,
the effort will culminate in a benefit album featuring original songs
and selections from Patti LaBelle, Jill Scott, Patti Austin, Talib
Kweli, KRS-1, Sean Paul, Angelique Kijo, Melky Sedeck and Brooke Hogan
among others. Grammy Award-winning artist Wyclef Jean will also
contribute songs to the project. Melky Jean will serve as the executive
producer of the album compilation. will serve as the compilation album’s
executive producer. The world music album will be released in August
2010.

The (I AM) CARE FOR HAITI Music Project has also partnered with the
nonprofit organization Carma Foundation, CARE and Wyclef Jean’s Yele
Haiti Foundation to help generate awareness of the extreme poverty in
Haiti and to increase the visibility of the country and its proud
history. All proceeds from the benefit album will directly benefit the
work of Yele Haiti and CARE and their mission to help the women and
children of Haiti. The initiative is sponsored by The Norbert Simmons
Family Foundation.

“80 percent of the population of Haiti survives on just a dollar a day,”
said Melky Jean. “Those most affected and living in poverty are women
and children who make up about 70 percent of the world’s poorest people.
With The (I AM) CARE FOR HAITI Music Project we hope to be a catalyst
for change and to raise resources to help provide fundamental business
skills as well as access to health, food and educational opportunities
for the women and children of Haiti. Women are the world’s greatest
natural resource for fighting poverty; by educating one woman we can
change a community and raise the hopes of a country. I’m pleased to have
gotten the support and help of some phenomenal women, and the support
of men as well to assist in this effort to end the extreme poverty in
the world’s first independent Black republic.”

In addition to the charitable album celebrating the resilience of
Haiti’s women, the initiative plans to facilitate trade and educational
trips to the impoverished region to promote interest in the country’s
development. In March a team of fifteen American women will travel to
Haiti in a show of solidarity for women and their families, with a goal
of furthering the cause of a prosperous Haiti, freed of poverty. Later
this year, a benefit concert and tour featuring artists and songs from
the world music album will be announced.

“I could use the musical gift that God gave me in a positive way and
en-site change. This will be the first time a charity album of this
magnitude has been done and dedicated to helping Haiti. Big brother
immediately thought it was a great idea, and in true big brother fashion
he supported me, stood by me, and nourished the project,” proclaimed by
Melky Jean.

“CARE is thrilled to be a part of The (I AM) CARE FOR HAITI Music
Project and its effort to change the lives of the millions of Haitian
women and children living in poverty,” said Gary Philoctete, Acting
Director of CARE Haiti. “For over 50 years CARE has worked side-by-side
in Haitian communities to address the root causes of poverty — lack of
access to education, increasing women’s voices in family planning and
addressing inadequate health care issues. Through our experience we have
come to realize that women and girls are key catalysts for breaking the
cycle of poverty within communities. We are inspired by the steps taken
by Wyclef and Melky Jean, Norbert Simmons Family Foundation and the
artists who are committed in raising their voices to help change the
lives of women and children in Haiti. Together we can go far for Haiti.”