Micah Institute Advocacy Trip to Haiti
July 23, 2010 Dr. Peter Heltzel of New York Theological Seminary along with Chloe Breyer, Carl Nazaire and Kenel St. Vil share about their experience in Haiti on the first Micah Institute Haiti Advocacy Trip with Haiti Partners.
Progress on 2nd Learning Center
July 20, 2010 A quick video showing progress on our 2nd Learning Center that will serve Henri Christophe School. This is being built on land donated by a Haitian colleague. We are grateful for the support of all the people who are making this possible.
Open Space meeting at Bèl Platon Community School
July 19, 2010 Last Saturday, Haiti Partners long-time colleague, Enel Angervil, new staff member, Benaja Antoine, and two local partners, Pastor Ilven Obel and Principal Jean-Thony Delus, organized and conducted a community-wide Open Space meeting in the remote island village of Bèl Platon, where one of our partner schools is located. Despite a rain storm, […]
More Than Education at Cabois
July 17, 2010 I visited Cabois Learning Center yesterday and witnessed first hand how this building is already serving as a shelter. The rain poured and crews working on the roads came in for shelter. Gerald, school administrator, also shared how the micro-credit, that families of students are receiving, is helping them to rebuild.
Carrying Generators For Hours
July 7, 2010 Many of the 240 generators we received from Briggs and Stratton are being carried to extremely remote locations throughout Haiti. These fellas walked more than three hours to get this one to its destination.
Epic River Crossing
June 22, 2010 Yesterday our group from Silver Spring Presbyterian Church (Mechanicsburg, PA) traveled to Darbonne and Cabois with Haiti Partners Youth Choir. They connected with the students and teachers in song and stories. Great fun! The roads are washed out and with a bus for all 33 of us there was no way to […]
Silver Spring Presbyterian Sing With Haiti Partners Youth Choir
June 20, 2010 We’re delighted to be hosting a group of 12 people from Silver Spring Presbyterian Church. The group includes 9 youth. This morning we prayed and sang and learned news songs along side Haiti Partners Youth Choir. It was great!
XO Laptop Exchange in Virgin Islands
June 4, 2010 Last weekend my Haitian co-worker Benaja Antoine and I (John Engle) participated in an XO Laptop conference in the Virgin Islands. Not only were there students and mentors working on learning and teaching XO Laptops but the conference also convened people from around the world, including 3 from Afghanistan, who have been […]
HAITIAN FLAG DAY – WOZO CHOIR
May 26, 2010 Wozo Youth Choir, sponsored by Haiti Partners, sings on Flag Day at the historic Fort Jacques, which was built by slaves after independence. The fort suffered significant damage from earthquake.
XO Laptop Update: Great Stuff!
May 1, 2010 Haiti Partners is grateful to be in partnership with Waveplace and OLPC in this pilot. We are excited about this pilot leading to ALL students in our 7 partner schools having XO laptops!