Family Compassion Focus

Five years ago I heard about the earthquake on NPR driving home from kindergarten.  The breathless reporter described the crumbled buildings, dazed children alone in the streets, and catastrophic injuries, her boots crunching on broken cement. When she mentioned the children I looked back at my bundled up kids singing in the minivan and got […]

Edysson

All the children at ADECA are special, and they all have special needs. But none of them is like Edysson. He’s the son of Wanna, a single mother from Mariaman. Edysson’s father abandoned Wanna before he was born. Wanna grew up as one of her mother’s ten children, and she had little opportunity to go […]

Rally Against Restavek

  One of the challenges of working in Haiti is the reality of injustice and exploitation, the legacy of hundreds of years of slavery and colonialism. One of the most painful examples of this is restavek, the exploitation of as many as 200,000 children across Haiti. Poor families, unable to care for all of their […]

Gauging Impact: 5 Years Later

Five years after the earthquake, people want to know: What impact did the aid that went to Haiti have? How were our donations used to help Haiti recover and move forward? In this infographic, you’ll see  some highlights of the work that your support made possible in the 5 years since the earthquake. Haiti Partners is committed to accountability. […]

Counting the ones we lost

My first visit to Haiti was four months after the January 12, 2010 earthquake. It was before I joined Haiti Partners staff, and Kent, John, and several Haitian colleagues took us to the site where our colleague Enel had barely survived the collapse of a 6-story building. As we stood in front of the rubble […]

Concrete Math

With the school year well into its third month, patterns are starting to emerge. “I especially like the way the kids have taken to pre-calculation,” Francesse explains. That is what they call the activities that prepare kindergarteners for the math they will learn as they enter elementary school. Francesse puts a number on the wall […]