Grassroots Leaders Making an Impact
Amidst Haiti’s challenges, grassroots leaders and our Rethinking Power team, supported by Beyond Borders donors and the European Union, achieved remarkable milestones.
Spring 2022 Impact Report
Thank you again for your generous support for Beyond Borders. I am so grateful. You are supporting a growing movement of women and men in Haiti who...
BB Staff at UN Trust Fund to Prevent Violence Against Women
In case you missed it, my colleagues Emanuela and Sara were recently invited to join a UN Trust Fund to Prevent Violence Against Women webinar....
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Meno sees 100% success
This young girl is just one of the many students who make up Meno's 100% enrollment rate. When Beyond Borders' partner Limyè Lavi began working with leaders in the rural, mountainside village of Meno 6 years ago, the town's enrollment rate was comparable to the...
10 Days Til Nat’l Day for the Elimination of Restavèk!
On Nov. 17, 2006, thousands of Haitian children--many former slaves--took to the streets to march against restavèk slavery. Ms. Kathya Pierre. Mr. Michele Dessous. Pastor Christmas Barjon. These are just 3 of the thousands of Haitian leaders building the movement...
What’s a ‘social movement’?
We get asked this question a lot. Because we don’t always function like many other organizations in Haiti, our work is sometimes a little more, well, challenging to explain. We help Haitians build social movements that they’ve started before us and they’ll continue...
Modern slavery: Why we don’t buy ‘I can’t do anything’
These Child Rights Activists--just a few of thousands--are living proof that we can all do something about ending child slavery in Haiti. "Sadly we can't do much with this information." At least that's what one person posted in response to a BBC News report on a...
Sunday – Bev Bell Book Reading
This Sunday, at 5:30 pm at The Coupe in Washington, DC, join us in hosting renowned author/activist Beverly Bell for a signing of her latest compilation, Fault Lines: Views Across Haiti's Divide. In it, Bev "offers rich perspectives rarely seen outside Haiti.Readers...
Happy International Day of the Girl!
We love this video because it clearly shows how when you educate a girl, you change the world. If you like it, too, please share with friends! We’re passionate about working with girls. Why? Because when you set a girl up for success, you can break cycles of poverty...
A Tale of Two Children
Ever wonder what a child in restavèk slavery might be doing right now? What about when you're at work? School? In this infographic (below), we compare the life of a Haitian child in school to one in slavery./ If you're as moved by it as we are, please consider a gift....
Why I Cry at School Performances
We won't stop doing this work until every Haitian child has the freedom to sing, dance, and play like this vibrant young girl. Every time I watch my daughter perform with her classmates - from concerts to poetry recitals -- I cry. I cry from that deep place of joy...
Making Peace Every Day
Too often it seems like the idea of practicing peace is dismissed as a naive, idealistic, pie-in-the-sky concept that's just 'too simplistic' for our complex and dangerous world. Assad is using chemical weapons in Syria, Egypt is in the midst of a violent put-down of...
Girl Rising Screening 10/11 for IDG
Thursday, September 19, 2013 We believe that not just education, but girls' education, is one of the best ways to alleviate global issues and change the course of an entire community's future. Joining the many others who believe this, too, on Friday, Oct. 11, at 7 pm,...
TONIGHT! Edwidge Danticat Book Reading
Please join us at Politics & Prose TONIGHT 9/17 @ 7 pm for a book reading by Haiti's most renowned novelist, Edwidge Danticat. Danticat's latest novel, Claire of the Sea Light, tells the story of 7-year-old Claire and her fisherman father Nozias, who struggles...
BB to join in UNBOUND Stop Modern Slavery walk
On Saturday, Oct. 5, we have a unique opportunity to raise awareness about modern slavery around the world at the UNBOUND Stop Modern Slavery walk on the National Mall. The event, hosted by DC Stop Modern Slavery, with many local partners in the movement to end human...