On the morning of Thursday, March 19, JiHM’s national leadership met to discuss the coronavirus situation and how we could begin applying preventative measures to protect students and staff. We knew we needed to prepare for the possibility of it coming to Haiti, and we put an action plan in place for Monday.
Continue reading
For the last five years, two seniors at Grace Emmanuel School have watched their mom grow sicker and sicker.
Continue reading
Last month we shared reflections from the kids at the Lighthouse Children’s Home as they commemorated the 10th anniversary of the earthquake and the founding of the home.
Continue reading
At age 25 and in his first year of high school, Carl Eric is still making up for lost time.
Continue reading
Everyone gathers around the table, the one we’ve gathered around a thousand times before. Traditional Haitian dishes await us—fried and barbecued chicken, rice and beans, fried plantains, pasta salad, pikliz. It’s a beautiful spread of food, no doubt. And it’s been so long since we’ve done this. It’s been so long that we’ve all been together. Lovely squeezes my right hand as I look at all the faces, children who grew up right in front of my eyes and I begin to realize that time is even more fleeting than I once perceived.
Continue reading
A confession: I have been guilty of going years at a time without writing to the child my husband and I sponsor in Colombia.
Continue reading