La Maison d’Haïti now has a permanent home

Its general director Marjorie Villefranche has been a community organizer ever since she arrived in Montreal in 1965. After the 2010 earthquake, Villefranche saw how the community banded together at the center to give donations and support each other. That’s when she realized that they needed a larger place. Since then, the city gave $2 million USD to help make the project a reality. “My dream is coming true now because we have that new building,” Villefranche said. “The other dream is I would like [to see] that building full of the younger ge