Haitians, Friends of Haiti and Fans of Haitian art from around New York City please come out and support the best education program in Haiti, H.E.L.P. (Haitian Education Leadership Program). H.E.L.P. in collaboration with Galerie Monnin and Galerie Bourbon-Lally will be holding an art auction at Aristeia Capital on December 1st. Read more »

This is an update from my blog, posted 2006-07-29, on Haiti Lumiere and their soccer camp on La Gonave to help eradicate illiteracy.

I received this email today from Louis Elneus, President of Haiti Lumiere: Read more »

As with all trips to Haïti, adventures abounded during my recent 10-day visit. My mission this trip was to teach internet searching techniques to secondary teachers who are participating in the Certification Program in Pedagogy. Read more »

For Immediate release!

Packer Soccer Camp will try to kick out illiteracy on the Island of La Gonave, Haiti this summer. Read more »

UPDATE:  JULY 2006:  Dear Friends: Over 100 people attended the May 3rd HELP fundraiser at the Bubble Lounge in New York City with Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat and Isemonde Joseph, the very first HELP student who recently graduated from medical school. Ms. Danticat emigrated from Haiti to the U.S. at the age of 12 and published her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory at the age of 25. Read more »

The children pictured above are in danger of loosing the only home they ever known. This is a desperate situation. A situation that I know you can help me resolve. After much prayer and concern I am writing to everyone who has ever showed an interest in this organization and who I know have compassion in their hearts to care. This has been a very rough year for OASIS for Children, Inc. Although the children are doing very well; financially we are not doing well at all. These children have come such a long way. When we got them, they were all malnourished, uneducated, withdrawn, and hopeless. Now several of them have graduated out of Kindergarten, healthy, and happy. I am taking a great leap of faith to write this letter. God blesses us with so much. God also blesses us so that we can be a blessing to someone else. Please don’t put this letter down, keep reading, because we need your help today. Read more »

Haiti Innovation joins with Asosiyason Pwof Ansanm: Today, Haiti Innovation joined with Asosyason Pwof Ansanm to further their ongoing education program in the highly isolated city of Jeremie, located in the southwestern portion of the country known as the Grand Anse. Read more »

Hope for the future of Haiti will depend to a large degree on the education and enlightenment of the Haitian children of today. Although much financial and intellectual support will be needed from other nations, it will ultimately be the Haitians themselves who must take the lead. Read more »

“Ask questions” may not be the most comfortable thing that comes to a teacher’s mind when she or he is in the front of a classroom of 60+ students. But that is part of what 58 secondary teachers discussed in their four-week program of professional training this summer in Jérémie, Haiti. The program surveyed child-centered approaches to teaching – encourage students to ask questions, solve problems, work cooperatively, and integrate information relevant to the children and to society, such as communication, health, civics and the environment. Read more »

Some might say visiting Haiti and interacting with its people is enough to inspire anyone. This is true. After visiting the Louverture Cleary School in 1999 I knew that I would work to bring social justice to Haiti until that goal was achieved. Read more »