The Mona Campus as part of The University of the West Indies (UWI) / Haiti Initiative has been playing a significant role in the rebuilding of Higher Education in Haiti. Currently, some twenty-five students of the State University of Haiti are completing the final year of their degree programme at the Mona Campus. The students were granted full scholarships for one year of study after a rigorous process of selection. They are taking classes in the faculties of Social Sciences, Pure and Applied Sciences and Humanities and Education.  The Haitian students are completing course work already begun in Haiti yet interrupted by the devastating earthquake. On completion of their year at Mona, the students will return to Haiti where they will be awarded a degree from the State University of Haiti.

Other efforts by the Campus have included assistance in the recovery and preservation of Haitian historical records as the earthquake significantly damaged the main library and archive buildings which house the documents of the country's rich history. In July a team from Mona traveled to Haiti. In Port-au-Prince they organized and delivered two workshops in basic binding and conservation techniques for staff of the National Library of Haiti and the Haitian National Archives. Additionally, they assisted with repair/restoration work and monitored the work being done by the persons trained.  Also, a librarian from the National Library of Haiti is now on internship at the Main library of the Mona Campus.

The UWI, Mona, Jamaica Language Unit, Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy also organized workshops on Haitian Creole designed to assist in the relief efforts in Haiti by bridging the language barrier between the disaster relief experts and the Haitian population. Forty three persons comprising members of the Jamaica Defence Force, medical personnel and law enforcement officers completed the course.  Of that number twenty one participated in the advanced six week Level Two component of the course.