Save the Date for our first ever virtual event!

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1603399592892{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Haiti Partners’ Board of Directors and Staff invite you to SAVE THE DATE for this year’s annual benefit:   Saturday, February 20, 2021 5pm PT / 8pm ET   Please join us as we take advantage of the virtual format to visit students and families in Haiti, enjoy musical performances from […]

Impact Update – Summer 2020

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”6px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][mk_page_section margin_bottom=”20″ sidebar=”sidebar-1″][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1601661273423{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] COVID-19 Response: Home Gardens Project [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1601998742947{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] With great relief we receive news about COVID-19’s limited health impact in Haiti. Nonetheless, it continues to damage the economy and increase food insecurity. In July we began the Home Gardens Project providing 200 families water […]

Home Gardens/Jaden Lakay project reaches the goal!

[mk_page_section][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1600970615164{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]We are very excited to share that thanks to a small number of very generous supporters and foundations, we have succeeded in fully funding the Home Gardens/Jaden Lakay Project! The Home Gardens project was designed as a long-term response to the threat of hunger resulting from COVID-19 in Haiti. To […]

Houston shares a story of Haiti & what it taught him about empathy

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1598038599513{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Haiti Partners is proud to have Houston Kraft, founder of CharacterStrong, on our Board. He recently participated in a conference where he talked about an experience he had when he visited Haiti and how it helped him think about empathy. While 12 minutes seems like a long time nowadays, we encourage you […]

Merline & Deanna talk Children’s Academy

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Last fall while visiting our many friends and family in Hershey, PA, Children’s Academy Co-Founder, Merline Engle, and HP Board member, Deanna Slamans, had a chance to sit down together to talk a little bit about the Children’s Academy. Here’s a little excerpt from that conversation. Special thanks to Andy Slamans for suggesting the opportunity […]

The Home Gardens initiative is underway!

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1595964886325{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]We’re pleased to share that the Home Gardens (“Jaden Lakay” in Haitian Creole) initiative – which deals with the looming hunger crisis caused by COVID-19 – is going really well. The ground work has been done and the team is aligned and organized. Installation of the rain water catchment systems along with […]

Inspirations from Haiti: Gueldy Rene

Even as COVID-19 is having a devastating impact on Haiti, we draw inspiration from Gueldy Rene and others like him. Gueldy works with our students and WOZO Choir.⠀ ⠀ Gueldy has been a friend for many years. He was born and raised in Haiti’s largest and most dangerous slum, Cité Soleil. As a teenager, Gueldy […]

Coming Together for Change

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1592415512844{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]While we feel a great heaviness with all that’s going on in the U.S. and around the world, we continue to draw hope and inspiration because of all that we’ve been able to accomplish together with you. Even as we struggle with enormous challenges, we believe more than ever that education and […]

Character.org recognizes HP’s SASA! program as “Promising Practice”

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1591833728566{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Haiti Partners has been named a “Promising Practice” recipient by Character.org, for its SASA! program at the Children’s Academy. Character.org is a Washington D.C. based organization that has become a national leader and advocate for character development across the country and internationally. They have certified 246 “Promising Practices” to organizations and schools […]

More on COVID-19 Prevention: Mask-making at the Children’s Academy

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our teams in Haiti have made more than 3,000 masks so far for our students and staff and their families and other community members. Masks are made by Daphney (in photo) and others out of t-shirts that families bring to them. It’s the most cost-effective way we know of for producing washable masks and it […]