Haiti: from tragedy to transformation? – a video on participatory practice and research for community development and social change being conducted at the Children’s Academy January 21, 2014 Erik Badger Some time ago we posted a blog about “Fowom Foto” – “Photography Forum” – a project led by Jayne Engle-Warnick (John’s sister!) as part of […]
September 19, 2013 Erik Badger In previous blog posts we talked about GiveLove, an eco-sanitation organization co-founded by Patricia Arquette. Since 2010 we have been partnered with GiveLove to bring composting toilets to the schools we are partnered with. To date, they have installed these innovative toilets at the Children’s Academy and Henri Christophe Community School. […]
August 11, 2012 Sara Ko This video features a photography workshop organized by one of our research affiliates, Jayne Engle-Warnick. She is not only a friend of Haiti Partners’, but also John Engle’s sister! As part of her research to learn more about Haitians through personal interviews and exercises such as this “Fowom Foto”, Jayne […]
July 21, 2012 Sara Ko Below is an interview with Ritha Celius, a member of the Beneficiary Committee in the Santo Community. Ritha is taking a leadership role in the development of a governance structure in Santo and will be moving into her new home in January 2013. ~~~~~~~~~~ Hello, my name is Ritha Celius. […]
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. […]
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 Erik Badger Haiti Partners recently had the opportunity to host an impressive team of entrepreneurs in Haiti: Ingrid Vanderveldt, Jesse Engle and Aaron Gotwald. Ingrid is Dell computer’s first Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) and Jesse (John’s brother) and Aaron are the founders of CoTweet. Jesse brought his son Nick and niece Lynsie along as well. […]
April 5, 2012 Erik Badger Thanks to our partnership with Habitat for Humanity International, 150 community members of the newly created Santo housing community in Leogane will participate for six months in an adapted Circles of Change training which will not only teach them democratic practices, but will result in a local governance plan created by the community. 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.
October 14, 2011 Nine of my close colleagues and I (John Engle) drew inspiration from Muhammad Yunus today. Hats off to Grameen Creative Lab for organizing this conference of thought leaders, entrepreneurs (all ages) and many like my colleagues and I who are committed to social business. It was wonderful to see the two young […]
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