(Reuters) – Some two decades ago, Brian Moynihan’s younger brother Patrick came to him for advice. Patrick who had been a trader wanted to move to Africa to work as a missionary.
Moynihan, now the chief executive of Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), instead suggested moving to Haiti to run a Catholic school that he had [...]

Last week president Martelly say “The Haitian woman is the foundation of our society” so we wanted to run this article again to continue to bring to light the plight so many Haitian girls in Haiti.
The earthquake that struck Haiti on two years ago, left many thousands of children orphaned, lost or separated from their [...]

Friend of Haiti in NY and a partner of Haitienne Magazine just came back with some fantastic photos from their recent trip to Haiti last week. Michelle Kalil one of the key people in Friend of Haiti in NY organization, is doing such a great jobs to make the people of Fond Verrette, Fond de [...]

Carole Berotte Joseph is the nation’s First Haitian born US College President, the fourth president of Massachusetts Bay Community College (MassBay) in Wellesley Hills, MA. She will be its first woman president since its inception. She served as the college’s chief executive for almost a year already, before becoming president. Dr. Joseph, the eldest daughter [...]

“I think what the American Dream means to me is the fact that– immigrants from all over the world felt that here was a place of freedom, a place of opportunity. People felt that this was a new land, without a class society, without an aristocratic background, where if you worked hard you could become [...]

It was at school one afternoon early last year that young Djecilia Jean Baptiste felt the walls start to shake.
“I heard other houses come down,” the 13-year-old says, eyes fixed downward. “And I didn’t know what was happening.”
The earthquake in Haiti killed more than 300,000 people and devastated the girl’s hometown of Jacmel. The school [...]

The University of Notre Dame Haiti Program will spend less money to light and power its operations thanks to the addition of 16 solar panels, the work of a non-for-profit foundation led by two 1985 Notre Dame graduates.
The Let’s Share the Sun Foundation, based in Troy, N.Y., completed the second phase of a solar installation [...]

The Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs welcomed the first-ever group of Youth Ambassadors from Haiti to the United States on August 7. For three weeks, 20 Haitian high school students will travel to New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. where they will meet with their U.S. peers, live with [...]

THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL STORY SWAP: CONNECTING STUDENTS IN NEW ORLEANS AND PORT-AU-PRINCE
All Story Swaps begin the same way…Tell me something about you. Tell me a story so compelling that after hearing it, I’ll know you better. Then, I’ll take your story and recreate it as if it were my own. It’s a most elemental start [...]

A dozen historically Black colleges and universities have formed a consortium to help rebuild the earthquake-damaged State University of Haiti, the Caribbean country’s largest institution of higher education.
Led by Florida A&M University, the consortium hopes to raise $12 million to construct a classroom building equipped to receive telecourses taught by faculty from the Black colleges. [...]