Haiti Partners

06/16/2026

While the news out of Haiti continues to be heavy, inside our schools, hope and progress are winning. 🇭🇹✨

We are launching our Moving Forward Together fiscal year-end MATCHING CAMPAIGN to protect and further this vital work. If you've been looking for a way to help, now's the time:

🔹 Dollar-for-Dollar Match thru June 30: Your gift goes twice as far.
🔹 100% to Programs: Every cent goes directly to supporting Haiti's children and families.

Click here to learn about the great work you're making possible, and to join: support.haitipartners.org/campaign/811618/donate

Thank you for standing with us. 🙏 ~ Merline & John

Moving Forward Together https://giving.gofundme.com/campaign/811618/donate

06/11/2026

One of the things that makes the schools we work with in Haiti different is a commitment to service and community development - something desperately needed in Haiti. At the Children's Academy, we call this "School-Based Community Development."

These images are from a recent service day that was organized by our Partner School, Henri Christophe Community School. Students and staff arrived on a Saturday at 8am and spent a few hours clearing the road leading to the school as well as the school campus itself.

Haiti Partners is proud to be partnered with Henri Christophe Community School and applauds them for taking the initiative to organize this. It's a great experience for students, staff, and it's a great service to the community. 👏❤👍

06/09/2026

With the 2026 school year winding down in Haiti, we want to celebrate what you’ve helped achieve. Our Spring Impact Update offers a brief but powerful glimpse into the lives changed by your support so far this year.

Thank you for your steadfast engagement through these difficult times. Your kindness and generosity directly impacts over 1700 students, bringing them hope and inspiration each day at The Children’s Academy and our Partner Schools.

Check out our latest Impact Update. In it you'll learn about the compelling work that your support makes possible each day in a format that's both brief and substantial.

06/04/2026

While this video is a few years old now, we're still very proud of it as a good representation of the transformative work happening at our flagship school in Haiti, The Children's Academy.

It's narrated by a member of our inaugural class of students, Leissa, who was in 6th grade at the time. Today, she's an 11th grader and is just two years shy of graduation!

With direction by Co-Director, Merline Engle, content from the Our Story Team in Haiti, and some great editing work from Luke Renner, we couldn't be more pleased with how it turned out. We hope you enjoy it!

06/03/2026

A couple weeks ago we shared some great images from our Partner School, IMN Community School. They went all out for Haiti's Flag Day holiday, donning flag-colored attire, breaking out their instruments, and taking to the streets to celebrate Haitian pride!

Well, now there's a video as well! Kudos to IMN for putting this together. We hope you enjoy it.

In these difficult times, we truly believe celebrations like these are vital to keeping people's spirits up and providing hope for the future. Great work IMN! We're proud to be together in this work with you! 👏❤🇭🇹

05/28/2026

We invite you to read another of Co-Director, John Engle's, short writings. This one is entitled "Learning Unknowing - Belief at the edge of mystery," and details some of his earliest experiences upon just arriving in Haiti in 1991. Here's an excerpt:

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.. The mountains rise spectacularly from the coast, lush and dramatic, cascading down toward beaches of white sand and turquoise Caribbean water so clear it seems lit from within. The plains spread wide and green. Port-au-Prince itself holds surprising architectural beauty. The famous gingerbread houses, ornate Victorian structures built by Haitian craftsmen in the late 1800s, their fretwork and turrets somehow still standing amid the chaos of the city. The streets pulse with color, with music, with the smell of street food and the sound of Haitian Creole rising and falling like song.

Haiti is a place of stunning, almost defiant beauty. And in much of its urban landscape, that beauty is increasingly smothered by poverty, by plastic waste, by crumbling infrastructure, by the accumulated weight of generations of extraction and misrule.

Christine and I were learning, from those very first days, to hold both at once. The magnificence and the suffering. The laughter and the grief. The extraordinary resilience of a people and the extraordinary weight they carried.

This is Haiti...

VIEW FULL POST: https://englejohn.substack.com/p/learning-unknowing

05/21/2026

🇭🇹 Chapo ba zanmi nou nan IMN! (Hats off to our friends at IMN!)

This past Monday, May 18, Haiti celebrated Flag Day. Even amid difficult times, the students and staff at our Partner School, IMN Community School, brought incredible joy and energy to the streets. Dressed in the national colors, they marched, danced, and performed live music to showcase their deep Haitian pride.

IMN stands out because of its amazing dedication to the arts—every single student learns an instrument as part of their education, making vibrant celebrations like this possible!

We are so grateful to partner with such resilient, passionate educators who recognize how vital music and art are for youth development. Thank you for being a beacon of hope! ✨

05/18/2026

Happy Haitian Flag Day from The Children's Academy!