An Inspiring Teacher Story

June 15, 2011 Clovis Charles is a school administrator and teacher at Henri Christophe Community School, one of our seven partner schools. (He’s also featured in our recent letter about a $60,000 matching grant opportunity before June 30.)  Clovis epitomizes why we don’t want to hold back as we help Haitians change Haiti through education. […]

Grassroots United and KDI

June 13, 2011 What a pleasure for me to finally visit Grassroots United. I (John Engle) have been sporadically communicating with founder Sam Bloch since right after the earthquake. Our paths crossed a couple time in the US too. But, it’s only one week ago that I visited there operation which is within walking distance […]

Civic Empowerment Project Article on USAID Website

June 7, 2011 Click here to read a brief article on the USAID website about the 3-month customized Circles of Change training we did with them earlier this year.  The training focused on Civic Empowerment.  As a result, 1,000 educators practiced inclusive teaching and leading techniques, studied the Haitian Constitution and learned about their civic […]

10th Annual Open Space Gathering: June 23-26

May 24, 2011 Open Space meeting format is an important tool that Haiti Partners and organizations in our network use to engage people’s involvement in plans and decisions that will influence their lives. Each year the Annual Open Space Gathering convenes 70-90 educators and community leaders who are either practitioners of Open Space meeting format, […]

Social Business Seminar with Grameen Creative Lab

May 6, 2011 35 community leaders/school directors are convening for three days as part of Haiti Partners LEADERS Program, which is funded with a grant from Vista Hermosa Foundation. This is a three-year training to help leaders build capacity in: use of computers (they all receive laptops), in participatory education and leadership, and in institutional […]

Children’s Rights Training with Beyond Borders

May 6, 2011 This week a select group from Haiti Partners’ teachers and leaders networks received training in children’s rights from Coleen Hedglin and Beyond Borders’ Child Protection Program.  Such a pleasure to work together with our dear colleagues at Beyond Borders! And what great work they continue to do!  This training uses a method […]

15 Months After the Earthquake Update

April 12, 2011 Today marks the 15-month anniversary of the devastating January 12, 2010 Haiti earthquake which killed over 300,000 and left over one million homeless.  Though many have become pessimistic because of the slow progress to rebuild the country, Haiti Partners has not held back: From day one we have worked effectively with our […]

Reports on Major Grants

April 10, 2011 Haiti Partners has the privilege of working with Vista Hermosa Foundation, which is making possible through significant grants, two important Haiti Partners projects: Capacity Building 3 and Social Enterprise for Advancing Quality Education. We invite you to review our two-year and 18 month reports, respectively, for these projects. Click here for Capacity […]

Film About Community Enterprise for Education

April 4, 2011 My colleagues and I (John Engle) are delighted to share a film that we’ve (we includes the amazing Luke Renner and Sylove with Fireside International along with others involved) created about a wonderful Haitian success story of communities creating income generating activities to pay teachers’ salaries to educate the children in their […]

Circles of Change Spreads by Tens of Thousands

March 28, 2011 Haiti Partners’ mission is to help Haitians change Haiti through education for students, teachers, leaders, and disciples. Our educational efforts focus on helping Haitians change their country’s top-down, dictatorial teaching and leadership approach to one that empowers children and adults to discover their potential to create and to collaborate effectively. Our educational […]