Capacity Building 3 Project

The Capacity Building 3 project was a series of 12 three-day training meetings held between May 2009 and December 2011 that were generously funded by a grant from the Vista Hermosa Foundation. This project convened 40 community leaders from all over Haiti with the goal of strengthening their leadership capacity so they could become more effective […]

Capacity Building3 Mid-Year Report

September 2, 2009 We just completed mid-year report of our 3-year Capacity Building3 project financed by Vista Hermosa.  Click here to learn more about the project. Click here for the mid-year report.

Open Space meetings in 38 Schools in 2 Months

August 8, 2009 I’m (John Engle) in Carrefour Haiti participating in one of our Capacity Building seminars, which includes 35 of my Haitian colleagues from around the country. Among them is a small team of four that are having incredible results with Open Space meetings in schools. They have contracts with Save The Children and […]

Capacity Building Project

May 11, 2009 This photo (above) was taken yesterday morning before we finished our last session. The folks pictured  will participate in this 3 year program. We couldn’t be more grateful to Vista Hermosa for providing the grant to make this all possible. Click here to go to a gallery of photos taken the during […]

Reports on Major Grants

April 10, 2011 Haiti Partners has the privilege of working with Vista Hermosa Foundation, which is making possible through significant grants, two important Haiti Partners projects: Capacity Building 3 and Social Enterprise for Advancing Quality Education. We invite you to review our two-year and 18 month reports, respectively, for these projects. Click here for Capacity […]

Impact Update – Winter 2025

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 […]

Reservoir project provides water security to Partner School

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 […]

Earthquake Update: Summary of Accomplishment 15 Years On

Earthquake Update Summary of Accomplishments 15 Years On January 12, 2025 marked 15 yearssince the Haiti earthquake We provide this summary update so that our supporters can see for themselves, in short form, some of the key accomplishments they have made possible since the 2010 earthquake. For more details, we invite you to visit our […]

Haiti Partners Executive Summary

Haiti Partners Executive Summary “If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”  ― Dr. Lilla Watson, Murri activist and academic (Indigenous Australian) The Context Despite the beauty of its land and the […]

My Haiti Story – John Engle, HP Co-Director

SHOULD I MOVE TO HAITI? It was 1991. I was 27 and a Sales Manager for Panasonic working out of their Chicago office. I was making a good living, contributing financially to causes I believed in, enjoying creature comforts, and hopeful about a financially successful future. I was contemplating my career trajectory. Yet, I was feeling […]