Grameen Social Business Lab

May 21, 2011 My co-workers and I are thrilled to be affiliated with Grameen Creative Lab. The Social Business Lab that their Haiti and Germany-based staff organized yesterday at Karibe Convention Center brought together extremely interesting people who are working on interesting things. Please stay posted. Haiti Partners is committed to social business which can […]

Social Business Seminar with Grameen Creative Lab

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 […]

Reports on Major Grants

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 […]

Film About Community Enterprise for Education

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 […]

LEADERS Program: Social Enterprise

March 14, 2011 The successful long-term development of Haiti relies on Haitians acquiring and employing the skills they need to exercise their independence and autonomy in inclusive and respectful ways.  Unfortunately, most Haitian leaders lack both the practical skills to make them effective and the experience which would allow them to lead inclusively and respectfully. […]

Disciples Network Organizes to Educate on Cholera

October 26, 2010 Yesterday, we received a message from one of our Disciples Program leaders, Ysmaille Dorsainvil, who lives and works in the Central Plateau, where the cholera outbreak began.  As soon as Ysmaille learned about the outbreak, he connected with a local nurse and organized a meeting with 38 members of his network as […]

Joslin, Maya, Asha, Roger and Suzanne: THANK YOU!

September 25, 2010 This special thank you is long overdue. Please forgive me! Your family’s generous donation last December helped teachers and students at Brouard/Lalo Community School after the earthquake. See photos of students at Brouard/Lalo Community School below. This is a school in the neighborhood where I live with my family. For years a […]

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.