Thank you and Happy New Year!

December 31, 2012 Kent and John, on behalf of Haiti Partners’ staff and network of Haitian students, educators, and community leaders, want to thank you for being in this with us. Thanks to YOU, 2012 has been an extremely productive year. Here’s what you’ve made possible: Our six partner schools are providing better education to […]

Happy Thanksgiving!

November 22, 2012 Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s a short video that we did in Haiti very early this morning. We wanted to share some Thanksgiving reflections with you. We are so very grateful to be part of such a dedicated, talented team and to have the opportunity to be a bridge between you and the people […]

Happy Birthday Haiti Partners!

Nov. 12, 2012 We’ve been working in Haiti for many years, but just three years ago this month we started Haiti Partners. It’s a moment to say how deeply grateful we are for you and your partnership, to look back with gratitude for God’s grace, and to look forward with excitement to the good work […]

Vote for Malya, our CNN Hero!

September 29, 2012 Erik Badger Vote at CNN Heroes for Malya Villard-Appolon, a longtime friend and collaborator of Haiti Partners. For over 10 years Malya and her organization KOFAVIV have used the methods we promote – Reflection Circles (Touchstones in the US) and Open Space – to encourage healing and empower rape victims. She is indeed a […]

Elections Held at Habitat Santo Community

Sept 17, 2012 Erik Badger In a previous blog post I described how we were using the Circles of Change method to introduce participation and inclusive leadership skills to the Habitat for Humanity housing community in Santo, Leogane. This project adapts the standard program so that participants could work together to develop a self-governance plan for the […]

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 […]

Circles of Change Advanced Training

June 7, 2012 On May 18-19 we convened 30 of our strongest Open Space and Wonn Refleksyon practitioners for an advanced training in the Circles of Change method. The objective of this training was to share new best practices that were developed in the north as part of the Improving Communications Project with USAID that […]

New Project Pages Promote Transparency

April 30, 2012 Erik Badger We’re pleased to announce two new project pages here at haitipartners.wpengine.com: the Capacity Building3 and Social Enterprise for Quality Education pages.  These pages consolidate all significant proposals, reports, media and updates from these two projects and make them easily accessible to the public. Though we do not expect all of our […]

Planting Beans at Haiti Partners Academy & Happy Easter!

April 7, 2012 John Engle April 7th is a big planting day in Haiti. About 20 community members came together at 5 am this morning to start planting beans on land where Haiti Partners Academy is being built. In Haiti this is called a kòve, which is a tradition for centuries. It’s like a work […]

Haiti Partners in Vero Beach Magazine

February 7, 2012 Thank you to Deborah Borfitz and Vero Beach Magazine for this thoughtful, well-researched article on Haiti and our work there. Click here to read the article.