As a result of Hurricane Matthew, Haiti Partners’ work has shifted to identifying the hardest hit areas within our networks and developing and implementing our response plan. In the fall report, we will discuss this work in detail. Though this is where our focus needs to be right now, the good work that takes place throughout the year in the Quality Schools […]
Haiti Partners is grateful to Mary Schenkel and VeroNews.com for doing this interview with co-director, John Engle, about Hurricane Matthew. In it, John expresses gratitude for the good construction that minimized damage at the Children’s Academy and most of our partner schools, and concern for our school on La Gonave and the many other people and places affected […]
Family Assistance in Response to Hurricane Matthew After assessing losses in the communities where we serve, Haiti Partners will respond to Hurricane Matthew through: Small grants to help the families of staff, school students, and Micah Scholars who suffered significant loss in the hurricane. They need help primarily with home repair, buying seeds for crops […]
Many people in our network in the US and Haiti are familiar with our friend and colleague, Jayne Engle. Jayne came to Haiti initially through her brother, HP co-founder, John Engle. But her connection to Haiti has grown much deeper over the years to the point where I can seldom visit Bawosya – where the Children’s Academy is located […]
In Haitian Creole the term “rak bwa” literally translates as “woods.” But when it’s used to describe where a person lives, it carries a negative connotation probably best translating to “nowhere.” In contrast to developed areas, people who live in “rak bwa” are understood to live in the undeveloped areas: areas without services or any […]
Our friends at the Academy for Culture Ambassadors recently featured Nisana and Esther, two of the teachers from the Children’s Academy, in their monthly Culture Role Models newsletter. Click here and scroll down to view Nisana and Esther’s quotes The Culture Role Models newsletter aims to “support people and organizations in their pursuit of humanistic […]
In the beautiful mountainous region of Haiti just one hour south of Port au Prince airport there is a model school that locals call ADECA. With the support of Haiti Partners, they’re creating an education-centered community development approach where parents contribute 4 service hours weekly while also participating in continued education including village savings and […]
On July 13-15 in Darbonne we held our 5th annual Teacher Summit training. This is the largest training we hold all year for our schools network teachers and the materials and techniques covered serve as the basis for what we will work on in the coming school year in all our schools. Forty six teachers from […]
It’s been a busy spring in the Haiti Partners Quality Schools program! For example: Four Village Savings and Loans groups are currently functioning at the Children’s Academy, with over $6400 saved to-date. Thanks to a generous and quick response by supporters to an emergency campaign, our partner school in Bèl Platon was able to quickly repair their cistern and return the […]
Submitted by Jodie Kitchens “My mitzvah project was to link across our modern tribes, across land and sea and culture and language. “ – Hart Isaacoff, Bar Mitzvah candidate On Sunday, May 22nd, the youth of Beth Ahabah buzzed around the community room, excitedly awaiting the presentation of a service project that was months in […]
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