Beyond Borders’ community-based initiative, Rethinking Power, is working in more than 100 communities to prevent violence against women and girls by addressing the root causes of domestic violence: the imbalance in power between women and men in Haitian society. Each day in towns and villages throughout Haiti, hundreds of female and male activists, community and

Students at the Baptist School of Bwa Lyann, one of 25 schools in Beyond Borders’ Schools Not Slavery Network. Today, on Universal Children’s Day, I want to share with you the extraordinary story of Eddy. I first shared his story four years ago, and I was asked to share it again. This little boy walked with a

Development programs often help a community advance, but leave behind the very poorest. These are precisely the people that Beyond Borders wants to reach. To do so, we are inviting families, churches, and schools to invest in an approach proven to help the very poorest families lift themselves out of extreme poverty and stay out.

Power to Girls is a new step-by-step guide developed by Beyond Borders that helps girls and their communities prevent violence and provide better environments so that girls can thrive.

Thank you to everyone who so generously gave in response to Beyond Borders’ Hurricane Matthew efforts. We are grateful for all that you are making possible through your generosity, your care, and your concern for families who lost so much when Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti on October 4, 2016.

We believe in the power of girls to change Haiti and our world. Today on International Day of the Girl Child, read about one of the ways we’re empowering girls in Haiti through the creation of Girls’ Clubs.

Meet one of the dedicated caseworkers who are accompanying families in Beyond Borders’ Hurricane Matthew Response Program. Yvrose St. Luc (photo) is one of six full-time caseworkers with the Asosyasyon Animatè ak Peyizan Lagonave (AAPLAG), one of Beyond Borders’ primary partner organizations on Lagonav Island. Yvrose and her colleagues are supporting the 230 families participating in Beyond Borders’ Hurricane Matthew Response Program. The generous

Smith Maxime (left) directs the United to End Child Slavery partnership between Beyond Borders and Free the Slaves, and he is a key player in the Schools Not Slavery initiative. Smith is a lawyer with a Master’s Degree in Project Management and he is the father of four – 2 girls and 2 boys. We sat down with Smith to get