August 31, 2010 It was a great honor visiting Cite Soleil with Dawn Richard today. After walking around the Boston neighborhood learning from Guy Morelus, who grew up there, she then spent time at CSCS (Cite Soleil Community School). Guy is director of CSCS, which is a partner school of Haiti Partners. Dawn’s visit was […]
August 31, 2010 Sara, a giant thank you to you for all that you’ve done to help students and teachers at Cite Soleil Community School to learn more and to grow in love. You’re contribution has been incredible. I (John Engle) look forward to staying in touch with you to see how we can work […]
August 30, 2010 A week of training started today for the teachers and school directors of four of our partner schools. The very reputable teacher training firm, CAFT, is training teachers to use participative methods with the national curriculum. Four of their trainers are pictured below, including Director Linda Gershuny. The three other schools that […]
August 30, 2010 What a pleasure it was to have Dawn Richard visit Haiti Partners Youth Choir, Wozo. The kids were so taken by her love, enthusiasm and encouragement. Below are the songs Wozo performed during Dawn’s visit. To download words with English translation, click on: Words to Wozo Songs
August 29, 2010 Today, Hip Hop artist Dawn Richard visited WOZO, which is Haiti Partners youth choir and dance troupe. The kids were thrilled! Dawn, who has Haitian roots couldn’t have been more loving and fun. She connected with them deeply… laughing with them, applauding them, encouraging them, showing them a dance and learning a […]
August 29, 2010 Haiti Partners participated in a pilot with Waveplace and OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) of 200 xo laptops in April and May of this year. Last week I (John Engle) visited with about 20 students from our various partner schools to see how they’re progressing. Respecting one of OLPC’s principles, all students […]
“Wonn Refleksyon” or Touchstones Discussion Method as it’s referred to in US (touchstones.org), is an important part of teacher training that Haiti Partners does with more than 300 teachers a year. Here, a group of teachers at one of our partner schools are doing a Wonn Refleksyon session.
August 22, 2010 Phoebe Driscoll and Gia Ellis came to Haiti last week with us. Here are some of their photos and a video. Beautiful, Phoebe and Gia! Again, it was a joy having you and your sisters, your cousins and grandmother. Gia Ellis posted a video of Haiti Partners Youth Choir singing Mwen Renmen […]
August 19, 2010 I (John Engle) was pleased to see construction progress today at Cabois Learning Center. But we have a challenge. Can you help? In the video you’ll see that we have a very large space that we need to subdivide into about 8 classrooms. The challenge is that we want the dividers to […]
August 19, 2010 We (household of John and Merline Engle) bid Titia Ellis and her four granddaughters goodbye two days ago. What an honor it was to host them. Below are clips from some of our activities together. Titia, Rosie, Phoebe, Gia, and Camille, thank you for bringing love and joy to Haiti. Haiti Partners’ […]
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