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 […]
May 9, 2011 Yesterday afternoon we had another Children’s Academy community meeting. There were more than 30 children and adults that attended and a core group of a dozen that were there for the entire meeting of nearly 2 and a half hours. The focus of this meeting was two-fold: Discuss possible income generating activities […]
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 […]
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 […]
April 11, 2011 Haiti Partners has developed a partnership with Patricia Arquette’s organization, Give Love, to install and pilot composting latrines at Henri Christophe Community School. (Click here to view an earlier blog post about this.) Give Love’s mission is to provide low cost, sustainable, eco-sanitation solutions to improve the quality of life in Haiti. […]
April 11, 2011 In this video, taken right next to Henri Christophe Community School, we see the temporary food preparation facilities the school has built to prepare food we’ve received from the World Food Programme and Stop Hunger Now. We also see the guesthouse facilities our long-time colleague, Abelard Xavier, is building next to the […]
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 […]
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 […]
March 28, 2011 We couldn’t be more grateful to Katrina and Ernie Didot at A Bowl of Good Cafe and their staff, colleagues and clients who raised nearly $4,000 for education in Haiti. This is the second major fundraiser they’ve done since the January 12, 2010 earthquake. Thank you Katrina and Ernie and everyone involved […]
February 27, 2011 After a long process of searching for a piece of land large enough and flat enough for our Children’s Academy and Training Center campus, and then taking proper steps to correct a land deed that had some problems, Haiti Partners now owns 2.84 acres. We closed yesterday. As is custom in Haiti, […]
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