Partner School Meeting at Bellevue

December 7, 2013 This is a photo-report on our latest partner school meeting. It was a great, productive meeting, focusing on our broader goals for a partner school education and the practical ways we can work to achieve them. Thanks to our colleagues for participating and to John and Merline and everyone at Bellevue for […]

2013 Teachers Summit: Follow-Up

Aug 31, 2013 Erik Badger Last month we held our 2nd Annual Teachers Summit. This is our biggest single teacher training all year. Ten excellent teachers and administrators from Holland, MI – all brought together by Calvary Church – came and spent two and a half days with 60 of our partner school teachers. They brought […]

Partner School Meeting: Learning to Work Together

April 15, 2013 Erik Badger Last Wednesday, April 10th, Haiti Partners convened all of its school leadership teams at a hotel meeting space in Port-au-Prince. This included a total of 19 people: all six partner schools and the Children’s Academy. These meetings are held three times each year, and are a part of our ongoing […]

Partner School and Open Space Meetings

July 26, 2012 Erik Badger With the school year over, summertime provides a great opportunity to convene our partner school leadership teams as well as many members of our broader network. Taking advantage of this, last Thursday we held a day-long partner school meeting which was immediately followed the 11th Annual Open Space gathering. The partner […]

Activity Report from Bèl Platon Community School

March 29, 2012 Earlier this month Program Coordinator Benaja Antoine visited our most remote partner school, Bèl Platon Community School.  While there, he facilitated a meeting between teachers and school leadership, gave a short training on earthquakes, and helped the school work through some issues it was having with its social business pilot.  To read […]

Social Business with Partner Schools

March 15, 2012 While there are debates about schools and education policy in the U.S., few would argue with this: every child deserves a quality education. In Haiti, however, the system makes this practically impossible. So how can we both help individual schools and also find creative ways to address issues with the system? The […]

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 […]