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By John Engle. My years of work in Haiti, prior to opening the Children’s Academy with Merline, Alex Myril and members of the community, were spent learning and helping others to learn, how to [...]

… if you’re determined to go to the school, be ready, be courageous. Definitely, don’t go in the truck. Burning barricades have been built by people who are angry. They’re acting in [...]

Friends to Haiti, We hope this letter finds you well. You have likely heard about the recent unrest in Haiti. We wanted to give you an update. HAITI UPRISING Beginning February 7, a series of [...]

I was at the Children’s Academy with some neighborhood kids during recent Christmas break. Jores, father of Children’s Academy students Jonelson and Safera, was fetching water and was on his way [...]

This is a question we’re regularly asked. Given that two-thirds of Haiti’s labor force does not have formal sector jobs, it’s an important question. Haiti is ranked 214 out of 217 countries in [...]

Dear Friend to Haiti, Recently I (John Engle) made some home visits in the Children’s Academy community with American volunteers Danielle Gilbert and Deanna Acosta. Samuel, Leissa and Chara are [...]

Isaac is the father of two children at Children’s Academy. He asked me if I (John) had several minutes so that he could share something with me. Of course I agreed, but some heaviness came [...]

More than 20 years ago, soon after moving into a mountain community overlooking Port-au-Prince, I sat with seven-year-old twins Djeff and Ricardo and their father, Joel. In my limited Creole I [...]

Twenty-five years of experience working in Haiti (living here most of this time) has turned me into a critic of top-down development and management. Leadership that invests in developing “expert” [...]