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Benaja Antoine has been a program coordinator for Haiti Partners for about five years. After years as a primary school teacher, literacy class instructor, community activist, and administrator on [...]

Schools that strive to reform the way that children learn face problems that traditional schools don’t face. There’s discipline that must seem as though it comes easily to teachers who can simply [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

When Marie Carmelle and Aléus were thinking about where to send their daughter Beverly to school, they faced a quandary. “The closest school was Sebien’s, down in Mariaman,” Aléus explained, “but [...]

The new school year is well underway at the Haiti Partners Children’s Academy (ADECA), with classes having started on schedule over a month ago. Third year teacher Francesse Antoine is especially [...]