April 30, 2011 I (John Engle) bid friend and co-worker Kent Annan farewell yesterday. He was here in Haiti for a full program of staff, board and partner meetings this week which included finalizing budget for next fiscal year beginning July 1. (Thank goodness that’s done! 😉 ) As we worked on revenue projections and […]
April 29, 2011 Yesterday Ipena Lucien of Grameen Creative Lab Haiti met with teachers and school director of one of Haiti Partners partner schools to discuss possible social businesses that would benefit the community and the school. My colleagues and I (John Engle) were so impressed with Ipena’s facilitation skills. Haiti Partners is extremely excited […]
April 22, 2011 All of us at Haiti Partners are excited about a new partnership with Grameen Creative Lab in Haiti. While social business to advance quality education has been a priority for us since our conception, we acknowledge that we need more expertise and accompaniment. The professionally done film we did, “Solisyon Natif Natal” […]
April 18, 2011 “Three Cups of Truth” – Haiti Partners co-director Kent Annan just wrote a piece on Greg Mortenson and last night’s “60 Minutes” expose for Huffington Post. Here is how it starts: I just watched the “60 Minutes” expose on Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea. It felt like a punch […]
April 12, 2011 Today marks the 15-month anniversary of the devastating January 12, 2010 Haiti earthquake which killed over 300,000 and left over one million homeless. Though many have become pessimistic because of the slow progress to rebuild the country, Haiti Partners has not held back: From day one we have worked effectively with our […]
April 11, 2011 Haiti Partners has developed a partnership with Patricia Arquette’s organization, Give Love, to install and pilot composting latrines at Henri Christophe Community School. (Click here to view an earlier blog post about this.) Give Love’s mission is to provide low cost, sustainable, eco-sanitation solutions to improve the quality of life in Haiti. […]
April 11, 2011 In this video, taken right next to Henri Christophe Community School, we see the temporary food preparation facilities the school has built to prepare food we’ve received from the World Food Programme and Stop Hunger Now. We also see the guesthouse facilities our long-time colleague, Abelard Xavier, is building next to the […]
April 10, 2011 Haiti Partners has the privilege of working with Vista Hermosa Foundation, which is making possible through significant grants, two important Haiti Partners projects: Capacity Building 3 and Social Enterprise for Advancing Quality Education. We invite you to review our two-year and 18 month reports, respectively, for these projects. Click here for Capacity […]
April 8, 2011 We are thrilled to announce that we have secured the food to establish meal programs at our partner schools! The food was donated by the World Food Programme and Stop Hunger Now and will be enough to assure the kids in our partner schools are able to receive one healthy meal each […]
April 4, 2011 My colleagues and I (John Engle) are delighted to share a film that we’ve (we includes the amazing Luke Renner and Sylove with Fireside International along with others involved) created about a wonderful Haitian success story of communities creating income generating activities to pay teachers’ salaries to educate the children in their […]
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