February 27, 2011 Yesterday we bid farewell to 11 people from Edgewater Christian Fellowship. What a great group of people! Members of Edgewater Christian Fellowship Missions Group; Pastor Glen, Natalie, Alissa, Brian, Cliff, Jan, Rikki, Shawna, Shelly, Theresa, Zach, THANK YOU! We drew encouragement and inspiration from you and look forward to staying in touch. […]
February 27, 2011 After a long process of searching for a piece of land large enough and flat enough for our Children’s Academy and Training Center campus, and then taking proper steps to correct a land deed that had some problems, Haiti Partners now owns 2.84 acres. We closed yesterday. As is custom in Haiti, […]
February 26, 2011 Yesterday our facilitators met for planning and evaluation of the USAID funded Civic Empowerment Project that Haiti Partners is doing. Click here to download report. Click here to learn more about the Civic Empowerment program.
February 22, 2011 Here’s a video below in Haitian-Creole done by group leader Alex Myril. This is one of the 40 Open Space meetings taking place right now. These Open Space meetings have anywhere between 20 and 100 people and are part of the USAID funded Civic Empowerment project we’re doing with 1,000 educators and […]
February 21, 2011 Yesterday afternoon about a hundred people (what I said in the video was later determined to be incorrect) turned out for a community meeting about Haiti Partners Children’s Academy. We’re encouraged by their participation. Stacey McMahan representing Architecture For Humanity and Douglass Oliver with BAR Architects and I (John Engle) presented three […]
February 20, 2011 Haiti Partners is thrilled to be in partnership with BAR Architects and Architecture For Humanity in the design and building of Haiti Partners’ Children’s Academy.
February 20, 2011 What a great day yesterday. How inspiring to again witness the commitment of US churches to the education of Haitian children. Today ten men from Calvary Church hiked with me (John Engle) to visit the land where Haiti Partners’ Children’s Academy will be built. It’s a joy to be in partnership with […]
February 12, 2011 Here children from the Wozo Youth Choir receive XO student laptops. These rugged laptops are designed for use in contexts like Haiti and encourage students to teach themselves through innovative on-board software called eToys which makes learning fun! Toward this end, the kids will keep these laptops, allowing them to experiment with […]
February 10, 2011 After the January 12, 2010 earthquake, many Haitians could not work. Commercial goods were lost under buildings, businesses were destroyed, markets were abandoned. This, of course, made the devastation of the earthquake even harder to cope with. To help this situation, Haiti Partners began to distribute micro-loans. One group we did this […]
February 8, 2011 Last Friday our 20 Civic Empowerment group leaders came together to assess project progress, address challenges, and work together to improve the project as it nears its conclusion. Topics included questions about Open Space meeting facilitation, best practices for leading groups through the Haitian constitution and how to do final evaluations as […]
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