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 […]
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 […]
June 30, 2012 This past Wednesday the cement slab of Children’s Academy’s very first building was poured. This is a major milestone and we’re so grateful for the supervision of Miyamoto International and Architecture For Humanity toward making sure that it’s done well and that it’s an earthquake resistant building. We’re also deeply grateful for […]
May 12, 2012 Thanks to our partnership with Grameen Creative Lab, Haiti Partners and a new cooperative we’re starting in Haiti is anticipating a significant loan to start a bakery. Thanks to our partnership with BAR Architects, we’re getting the architectural design for the new building for free! BAR Architects, in partnership with Architecture For […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
January 28, 2012 Click here to read an article in Christian Science Monitor about Haiti Partners work in social business to improve quality of education in Haiti.
December 25, 2011 My co-workers and I (John Engle) were thrilled to host in Haiti the WorldBlu team December 10-17. Their training on organizational and workplace democracy for our partner school leadership teams and for 35 people in our LEADERS Program was incredible. We are so grateful to Vista Hermosa Foundation for making their visit […]
December 4, 2011 It’s exciting to see community involvement in construction of Children’s Academy. Below is video and photos of foundation being dug and also of folks clearing land in preparation for a large open space community meeting to discuss “The Role of Education in Development of a Community.” Below that is a video of […]
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