Today is World Environment Day and we’re excited to share that in addition to the recent addition of Soap Making, The Children’s Academy is launching a Tree Nursery as part of our entrepreneurship program. With local nurseries no longer accessible due to gang activity, this project will make essential trees like almonds, breadfruit, moringa, and […]
May 18 was Flag Day in Haiti. It’s a national holiday and, despite the current troubles, many schools took the opportunity to put on public celebrations. These images are from IMN Community School where they created and donned flag colored outfits and then marched out in the streets while singing, dancing, and performing music to […]
While grassroots democracy isn’t the most exciting of things, if you want people to really invest in something, we believe it’s the best way to go. With this in mind, since even before The Children’s Academy was opened, we established bi-weekly open community meetings. These meetings are open to anyone that wishes to participate and […]
As a part of our entrepreneurship activities at The Children’s Academy, we recently started teaching the 9th and 10th graders how to make liquid dish/laundry detergent. This type of soap is typically imported from the Dominican Republic and is costly. The idea is for students to learn how to make it at the school, and […]
At The Children’s Academy we recently held a “Career Day,” though it wasn’t what you might expect. It was for our kindergarteners and their parents. See, in Haiti there’s a long-held expectation that if you’re in school, your goal has to be to become a doctor, engineer, lawyer, or, perhaps, a teacher. These are the […]
The gardens at The Children’s Academy continue to do really well. Here we see students harvesting the produce they, with help from school staff and parent volunteers, have grown. What’s even cooler is that all the produce in the school gardens is grown using sustainable gardening techniques like permaculture! While learning sustainable gardening is […]
Children’s Academy 2nd Annual Reading Contest Winner: 8th grader, Daïka! Since last year The Children’s Academy has held an annual reading contest for students 7th grade and up. It aims to improve reading skills, encourage critical thinking, introduce students to the broader world, and to and reduce the time they might otherwise spend on social […]
Once again, Haiti Partners wants to send a big THANK YOU to Dick Flesher and our friends at Schools Count Corp. for their generous support of our most remote partner school, Bèl Platon Community School. Despite all the chaos currently in Haiti, they recognized that water insecurity was a vital issue at the school and […]
Research and experience have taught us that joy, fun, and play are essential for a child’s healthy development. Unfortunately, with the ongoing threat of gang violence in Haiti and the stress and anxiety that comes with it, providing this to our students has become a challenge. Nonetheless, as you do in situations like this, we’re adapting […]
Without easy access to medical care, far too many children in Haiti suffer from easily preventable illnesses: chronic coughs, rashes, headaches, stomach and intestinal issues, to name just a few. As a result, kids needlessly suffer and often do poorly in school due to a lack of energy and an inability to concentrate. For […]
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