Fabulous Haiti Video – Tragedy and Hope

December 4, 2011 The Kenbe La Foundation was founded by New Zealander Emily Sanson-Rejouis in honor of her husband Emmanuel (Haitian) and their two small children, Kofie-Jade (5) and Zenzie (3) who lost their lives in the 2010 earthquake. Click here to read this story of tragedy and hope that brings tears to my (John) […]

Partners in Music

October 20, 2011 Allan and Mary Pautz Klotche came to Haiti again as planned. In addition to spending time with Wozo choir, they did a music seminar for 22 school directors and teachers on how to use music to improve children’s learning and create more joy in the classroom. It was a great success. Allan […]

GRAMEEN FOUNDER, Muhammad Yunus in Haiti

October 14, 2011 Nine of my close colleagues and I (John Engle) drew inspiration from Muhammad Yunus today. Hats off to Grameen Creative Lab for organizing this conference of thought leaders, entrepreneurs (all ages) and many like my colleagues and I who are committed to social business. It was wonderful to see the two young […]

Social Business Meeting

September 27, 2011 Here’s a super quick video (14 seconds) of community meeting yesterday with Philippe Lagrenade facilitating a brainstorming about possible social businesses that could help fund the Children’s Academy and which will also help meet a community need. Philippe is doing meetings like this with all communities where our partner schools are. Today […]

Philippe Lagrenade Joins GCLH and HP

September 3, 2011 We welcome Philippe Lagrenade to our team! We’re excited about helping more Haitian children have access to quality education thanks to our partnership with GCLH (Grameen Creative Lab Haiti) Philippe has extensive experience in helping groups start businesses in Haiti and in consulting small businesses. Thanks to a grant from Vista Hermosa […]

Annonciation Community School Rebuilds!

August 25, 2011 We are pleased to report that Annonciation Community School is nearing completion of their own classroom building!  Through a generous gift from church supporters in the US, the leadership at Annonciation connected with Haiti Replacement Homes to build them a 6 room, earthquake and hurricane resistant classroom building.  HRH uses local labor, rubble […]

Partner School Meeting

August 15, 2011 Last week we had a day long meeting with representatives from leadership teams of our partner schools. It was a super productive day going over what’s working well, what the challenges are and how we’re going to address them. We’re making every effort to help our partner schools develop their capacity to […]

New Partnership: Music for Students

August 9, 2011 We’re saying goodbye to friends Allan Klotsche and Mary Pautz as they return to Vero Beach tomorrow. But, they’ll be back soon! Below, Mary and Allan are pictured with WOZO, Haiti Partners Youth Choir. It’s been wonderful having them with us in Haiti during the last several days. In addition to spending […]

Social Business Expert to Help Partner Schools

August 4, 2011 Thanks to our partnership with Grameen Creative Lab and to another grant from Vista Hermosa Foundation we have hired a Haitian expert who will work full-time to help our partner schools create social businesses. The purpose of this is two-fold. First, it’s a revenue source. Haitian schools rarely have adequate funds to […]

Children’s Academy Community Meeting

May 9, 2011 Yesterday afternoon we had another Children’s Academy community meeting. There were more than 30 children and adults that attended and a core group of a dozen that were there for the entire meeting of nearly 2 and a half hours. The focus of this meeting was two-fold: Discuss possible income generating activities […]