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New Project Pages Promote Transparency

April 30, 2012 Erik Badger We’re pleased to announce two new project pages here at haitipartners.wpengine.com: the Capacity Building3 and Social Enterprise for Quality Education pages.  These pages consolidate all significant proposals, reports, media and updates from these two projects and make them easily accessible to the public. Though we do not expect all of our […]

Kony 2012 and the Golden Rule: How Do ‘We’ Tell ‘Their’ Story?

By Kent Annan, for Christianity Today April 26, 2012 How should we tell stories about people we’re trying to help? Individuals, churches, missionaries, and nonprofit groups should ask this regularly. The answer is inextricably bound to the very justice we’re trying to promote. The question now has a perfect case study. Joseph Kony recently became […]

2nd Annual Partners Retreat

April 22, 2012 Erik Badger Thank you to everyone who came to participate in our 2nd annual Partners Retreat this weekend! It was a great opportunity to bring together our friends and partners from all over to talk about everything from our current work, to the experiences which led us to engage with Haiti, to […]

Haiti Partners Makes WorldBlu’s 2012 “Most Democratic Workplaces” List

April 10, 2012 Erik Badger Haiti Partners is thrilled to announce that we made it onto WorldBlu’s 2012 list of “Most Democratic Workplaces!”  This year marks three in a row!  This puts us in good company with others like: Zappos.com, HCL Technologies, New Belgium Brewery, DaVita, Great Harvest Bread Company and the WD-40 Company. Both for-profit […]

Happy Easter from Haiti Partners and WOZO!

April 8, 2012 WOZO has a special song for you. It’s a song in Haitian-Creole about the love of Jesus, his sacrifice and endless love and what he means to us. On behalf of WOZO Choir and our entire Haiti Partners team, Happy Easter!

Planting Beans at Haiti Partners Academy & Happy Easter!

April 7, 2012 John Engle April 7th is a big planting day in Haiti. About 20 community members came together at 5 am this morning to start planting beans on land where Haiti Partners Academy is being built. In Haiti this is called a kòve, which is a tradition for centuries. It’s like a work […]

Hosting Entrepreneurs in Haiti

April 7, 2012 Erik Badger Haiti Partners recently had the opportunity to host an impressive team of entrepreneurs in Haiti: Ingrid Vanderveldt, Jesse Engle and Aaron Gotwald.  Ingrid is Dell computer’s first Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) and Jesse (John’s brother) and Aaron are the founders of CoTweet.  Jesse brought his son Nick and niece Lynsie along as well. […]

Partnership with Habitat brings Circles of Change to Santo housing community

April 5, 2012 Erik Badger Thanks to our partnership with Habitat for Humanity International, 150 community members of the newly created Santo housing community in Leogane will participate for six months in an adapted Circles of Change training which will not only teach them democratic practices, but will result in a local governance plan created by the community. The […]