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 […]
Taking Risks, Learning Together: The Long Walk Toward Social Business
Maxandre at a speaking engagement in Chicago in 2011 (Erik translating) August 2013 Erik Badger Maxandre Bien-Aime is the principal of IMN Community School. He has a degree in linguistics from the Haitian state university and is a leader in his community. I am a liaison to IMN and have known Maxandre since I lived […]
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 […]
Great Project, Great Presentation
January 25, 2013 Erik Badger Since 2007 Kids4Good – a youth organization based out of Darien, IL – has supported our partner school, IMN Community School. In this Prezi presentation, Cynthia McGann, the founder of Kids4Good, has traced the timeline of this partnership all the way from the beginning. It’s such a great presentation of […]
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 […]
Haiti Partners on Discovery Channel!
May 7, 2012 After the devastating Haiti earthquake in January 2010, we partnered with Briggs & Stratton to deliver 240 generators to schools, clinics, community organizations and others to provide badly needed energy so relief work could take place. This 5 minute video documents the effort and and the exciting partnership that made it happen. […]
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 […]