December 22, 2010 We want to thank Educa Vision – a publishing company that specializes in Haitian Creole books – for generously donating many titles for use in our partner schools as well as making books available electronically free of charge on hundreds of XO laptops. Educa Vision has and is making major contributions for […]
December 20, 2010 Last Friday we held our second Civic Empowerment Project meeting. These meetings bring together the leaders of the many Circles of Change groups we have organized throughout Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas. Aside from the many logistical issues that needed to be covered at this meeting, we focused on how the groups would […]
December 12, 2010 Haiti Partners is privileged to be in partnership with Waveplace and OLPC in helping education in Haiti to leapfrog forward using XO laptops. We’re working hard to equip Haitian children with skills they need to improve lives and their country.
December 12, 2010 It’s another calm day in Port-au-Prince and Petion-Ville. Like yesterday, there is very limited public transportation. This means that normal activities cannot happen. People are also concerned about possible sudden eruptions. Thus, most people stay close to home. But, our Civic Empowerment groups are meeting! I (John Engle) and so impressed by […]
December 7, 2010 A Haiti Partners Children’s Academy is in the works! We’ve found the perfect plot of land. We are thrilled to be undertaking this significant project with the reputable Architecture for Humanity as a partner. We are also grateful for significant financial support for this project from Calvary Church, EAPE, Jesse and Leigh […]
December 7, 2010 This cholera education workshop was organized by local partners, the Team for Alternative Education (Ekip Pedagojik pou Ledikasyon Altènativ) and TEARFUND and reached 21 participants representing 10 different organizations. With help from US-based partner, Heads Together Haiti, this same team will now reproduce this workshop for another 500 people representing 15 organizations […]
December 5, 2010 Click here to read a story in the Arizona Republic about Christa Brelsford, the Cabois Community School, the Zyman foundation, and Christa’s rescuer, Wenson Georges. We are so touched by the care with which John Faherty approached this story. To see the story through pictures, click here.
December 4, 2010 Yesterday the 20 facilitators (photo below) in the Civic Empowerment Project we’re doing in partnership with USAID met to work on logistics and discuss what’s working and challenges. The objective of the project is to have forty groups, each comprised of 25 teachers, community organizers and young leaders (a total of 1,000) […]
December 1, 2010 Many of you have heard Christa Brelsford’s story. She was visiting Haiti, got trapped under a building in the earthquake, and lost her leg as a result. She then turned this into a Haiti Partners project to help people in the community where it happened – “Christa’s Angels”. We’re honored (and inspired) […]
November 17, 2010 I (John Engle) along with so many continue to draw inspiration from Christa Brelsford and her family who are committed to making good out of bad. Christa was volunteering at Cabois Community School last January. She was in my co-worker’s home with her brother and friends when earthquake struck. A chunk of […]
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