August 29, 2010 Today, Hip Hop artist Dawn Richard visited WOZO, which is Haiti Partners youth choir and dance troupe. The kids were thrilled! Dawn, who has Haitian roots couldn’t have been more loving and fun. She connected with them deeply… laughing with them, applauding them, encouraging them, showing them a dance and learning a […]
August 29, 2010 Haiti Partners participated in a pilot with Waveplace and OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) of 200 xo laptops in April and May of this year. Last week I (John Engle) visited with about 20 students from our various partner schools to see how they’re progressing. Respecting one of OLPC’s principles, all students […]
“Wonn Refleksyon” or Touchstones Discussion Method as it’s referred to in US (touchstones.org), is an important part of teacher training that Haiti Partners does with more than 300 teachers a year. Here, a group of teachers at one of our partner schools are doing a Wonn Refleksyon session.
August 22, 2010 Phoebe Driscoll and Gia Ellis came to Haiti last week with us. Here are some of their photos and a video. Beautiful, Phoebe and Gia! Again, it was a joy having you and your sisters, your cousins and grandmother. Gia Ellis posted a video of Haiti Partners Youth Choir singing Mwen Renmen […]
August 19, 2010 I (John Engle) was pleased to see construction progress today at Cabois Learning Center. But we have a challenge. Can you help? In the video you’ll see that we have a very large space that we need to subdivide into about 8 classrooms. The challenge is that we want the dividers to […]
August 19, 2010 We (household of John and Merline Engle) bid Titia Ellis and her four granddaughters goodbye two days ago. What an honor it was to host them. Below are clips from some of our activities together. Titia, Rosie, Phoebe, Gia, and Camille, thank you for bringing love and joy to Haiti. Haiti Partners’ […]
August 19, 2010 Thanks to generosity of a number of people and to Maxandre’s good leadership, children and others at IMN Community School, one of our partner schools, will have purified water for drinking.
August 15, 2010 We were all sad to see Kimberly Conrad leave Haiti today. What an extraordinary job she did integrating into her community and with her host family and helping students and teachers at Henri Christopher school (one of our partner schools) learn English. Thank you Kimberly for coming and engaging so wholeheartedly. We […]
This is a 4-minute video thanking the two churches that generously made the micro-finance project within the Disciples Program possible. It’s so far (and it will keep rippling out) been a huge help to 234 families. They’ve each received between $70 and $250 loans (depending on their business plan, their experience handling money, etc). Two […]
Thank you to David C. Cook Publisher for giving more than 300 of their Haiti Trauma Kit books to Haiti Partners. This short video is a thank you–and one of our Haitian colleagues share how meaningful it is as people continue to deal with the earthquake trauma seven months later…
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