June 29, 2011 Haiti Partners couldn’t be more grateful for our partnership with AFH and BAR Architects in the designing of our Children’s Academy. Recently, I (John Engle) had the opportunity to visit BAR Architects offices and to spend time with a number of their principals and staff. A giant thank you to Lisa Victor, […]
June 29, 2011 This past weekend was the 10th Annual Haiti Open Space Gathering. Every year this gathering convenes 60-80 educators and community leaders for an inspiring learning exchange. This event, which is completely run by Haitians, is among our many efforts to develop professional learning communities. We couldn’t be more grateful to Open Space […]
June 29, 2011 Haiti Partners is thrilled with our partnership with OLPC and Waveplace, and Acadia School that’s making it possible for more Haitian children to receive laptops and training and for more Haitian mentors to build skills in teaching computers and software. Thanks to these partnerships, more than 700 children either have already received […]
June 21, 2011 In a recent post we introduced Clovis Charles. Clovis is a school administrator and teacher at Henri Christophe Community School, one of our seven partner schools. Clovis is a fantastic, inspiring teacher who epitomizes why we don’t want to hold back as we help Haitians change Haiti through education. To help Clovis […]
June 20, 2011 I (John Engle) have enjoyed spending time this past weekend with employees and friends of Exact Target/Co-Tweet. What a great bunch of people and Haiti Partners couldn’t be more thankful for how they are partnering with us to support education in Haiti.
June 15, 2011 Clovis Charles is a school administrator and teacher at Henri Christophe Community School, one of our seven partner schools. (He’s also featured in our recent letter about a $60,000 matching grant opportunity before June 30.) Clovis epitomizes why we don’t want to hold back as we help Haitians change Haiti through education. […]
June 14, 2011 In the video below, Sam Chaltain – educator, writer and organizational change consultant – gives an inspiring talk about education and freedom in a democratic society. Sam was scheduled to visit Haiti with us last December but his trip was canceled for the political unrest at the time. We look forward to […]
June 13, 2011 I (John Engle) started out orientation on a dirt road in a congested area yelling out to 47 youth and youth leaders, “This is the first time I’ve ever done this so I’m not sure what to expect.” Any anxiety that the visitors from Calvary Church in Holland, Michigan were feeling about […]
June 13, 2011 What a pleasure for me to finally visit Grassroots United. I (John Engle) have been sporadically communicating with founder Sam Bloch since right after the earthquake. Our paths crossed a couple time in the US too. But, it’s only one week ago that I visited there operation which is within walking distance […]
June 7, 2011 Click here to read a brief article on the USAID website about the 3-month customized Circles of Change training we did with them earlier this year. The training focused on Civic Empowerment. As a result, 1,000 educators practiced inclusive teaching and leading techniques, studied the Haitian Constitution and learned about their civic […]
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