CABOIS LEARNING CENTER PROGRESS

May 9, 2010 Cabois Learning Center is being built! And, school leadership is getting trained to manage a $10,000 fund for parents of students to get small loans to help them do commerce and get back on their feet. With deep gratitude to Zyman Foundation and Zyman family for making all this possible!

KIDS4GOOD And SCHOOLS COUNT CORP Support Haiti School

May 8, 2010 IMN Community School, which is a Haiti Partners partner school has received generous support from KIDS 4 GOOD, Schools Count and other friends in the Chicago area. Students, teachers, director Maxandre Bien-Aime and Haiti Partners is grateful for this generous support! IMN Community School needs another $4,000 to complete construction. Learn more […]

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!

Cabois Community School Breaks Ground

May 1, 2010 I (John Engle) was encouraged to see that all the rubble from Cabois Community School has been removed and used to improve roads and that the foundation has been dug for a new Cabois Community Learning Center/Shelter. The locals are doing a great job and they along with Haiti Partners couldn’t be […]

Haiti Partners makes the 2010 WorldBlu “Most Democratic Workplaces” award list!

This month Haiti Partners was recognized by WorldBlu as one of their top 44 organizations exemplifying organizational democracy. As described on their website, “Organizational democracy is a system of organization that is based on freedom, instead of fear and control. It’s a way of designing organizations to amplify the possibilities of human potential — and […]

MIT STUDENTS AND OLPC VISIT OUR PILOT

Arpil 29, 2010 Students from MIT under leadership of Dale Joachim and Barry Vercoe, who are with OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) and MIT, visited our XO Laptop pilot yesterday. It was great to have them exchange with our school directors, mentors and students who are involved in the pilot program. Click here for more […]

Lalo Community School Back in Session

April 27, 2010 Children at Lalo Community School, one of Haiti Partners partner schools, returned to school a week and a half ago. It’s people like you who have made this possible! It’s wonderful to see children in their school uniforms and having fun! Click here for more photos of children at Lalo Community Schools. […]

XO LAPTOP PILOT GOING GREAT!

April 24, 2010 What a joy it is to see these children engaging so intently as they discover the potential of their XO laptops. 40 children and 10 mentors from four of our partner schools in Darbonne, the epicenter, are part of a 200 XO laptop pilot project. Click here for more photos. Special thanks […]

Haiti Partners in Florida News

April 21, 2010 Deborah Silver spent five days with Haiti Partners in Haiti. Click here for her second article complete with photos and videos.