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HAJICA Social Business Poultry Farm Officially Open!

June 6, 2014 Our 2nd poultry social business is officially open! It will soon be generating funds to help support operating budgets for our four partner schools in Dabon. Special thanks to Yunus Social Business – Global Initiatives, Heifer International, and all of our generous supporters. We’re also grateful that Dr. Michel Chancy, Minister of Animal Production […]

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 […]

Teachers Summit with Calvary Church

July 21, 2012 Erik Badger Last Monday and Tuesday Haiti Partners had the pleasure of welcoming 17 teachers and students from Calvary Church in Holland, Michigan.  After significant planning, we decided that the Calvary teachers could best support our partner schools by introducing a series of educational techniques that could be used across grade levels […]

InterVarsity Global Project Team in Haiti

July 1, 2012 It’s been great hosting InterVarsity Project Team in Haiti at our home/guesthouse (John and Merline Engle) for their last three days in Haiti. For two and a half weeks they spent time in the villages of Darbonne and Cabois teaching English in our partner schools and living and connecting with local families. […]

Alternative Math Makes Learning Fun at Partner Schools

May 26, 2012 Erik Badger One of the exciting methods our partner school teachers are learning is called Gattegno Math. The approach was developed by Caleb Gattengo (1911-1988) and uses manipulatives – small, colored & measured rods – to teach students how to think mathematically without relying solely on the memorization of formulas, as is typically the case in […]

Meals at Cabois Community School!

March 28, 2012 Thank you to the Brelsford family, Heads Together Haiti, and everyone else who contributed to support Cabois Community School to provide meals this month!  This program feeds about 150 people – students and staff – each school day and is a vital part of enabling students to learn well. *Click here for […]

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 […]