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Vote for Malya, our CNN Hero!

September 29, 2012 Erik Badger Vote at CNN Heroes for Malya Villard-Appolon, a longtime friend and collaborator of Haiti Partners. For over 10 years Malya and her organization KOFAVIV have used the methods we promote – Reflection Circles (Touchstones in the US) and Open Space – to encourage healing and empower rape victims. She is indeed a […]

Bridges Benefit a Great Success!

September 27, 2012 Erik Badger Thanks to everyone who made the Bridges Benefit a fantastic success! With over 100 guests at the San Francisco Film Centre in the beautiful Presidio, we couldn’t be more pleased with the outcome. To all of you who were able to make it, thank you for coming and getting to […]

Elections Held at Habitat Santo Community

Sept 17, 2012 Erik Badger In a previous blog post I described how we were using the Circles of Change method to introduce participation and inclusive leadership skills to the Habitat for Humanity housing community in Santo, Leogane. This project adapts the standard program so that participants could work together to develop a self-governance plan for the […]

Children’s Academy & Learning Center First Day!

September 10, 2012 John Engle What an exciting day! 20 of the 25 children enrolled in the Children’s Academy & Learning Center came for the very first day. In Haiti, it’s common for it to take a week or more to have this many of the enrolled children attend. Also, because the official school start […]

New Songs – WOZO Choir

September 1, 2012 It’s great coming home to kids being constructive. Nearly every day when school is not in session members of WOZO choir (37) come to our home (John and Merline) to practice their songs, create new ones and do fun and constructive activities like playing soccer, working on English and working on their […]