Family Graduation Celebration
Thank you for accompanying a family in Beyond Borders' Family Graduation Program. We are grateful for your generosity and your solidarity! You already know that all 161 families graduated. Now let’s celebrate the whole cohort—and the movement you’re powering—together. Join us for a Family Graduation Celebration (60 minutes | Haitian Creole/English interpretation). Just click your preferred time to register: Tues, Oct 7 at 7:00 pm ET Wed, Oct 8 at 12:00 pm ET What you’ll experience when you join us: Opening gratitude from us—naming what your support made possible across all 161 families. Stories that stay with you: new graduates and frontline caseworkers share brief, first-person moments of change—steady income, kids in school, dignity restored. How this works (and why it lasts): a quick “inside the model” look at weekly coaching, savings, and health/education milestones that help families escape extreme poverty. What’s next: the path to Cohort 7—how communities identify the most vulnerable families and invite them into the journey you helped another family to complete. Ways to stay involved: low-pressure options to keep momentum going for the next 110 families. Your presence lifts up the graduates, honors them, and helps launch what’s next for families across Lagonav. We hope to see you there, so please, register now! With gratitude, Coleen Hedglin & Smith MaximeCo-Executive Directors | Beyond Borders
New Peer-Reviewed Study in the Journal of Family Violence
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Advancing the Health of Haiti’s Women and Girls
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Click on the image to read the Winter 2021 Impact Report How could I read this newsletter and not be over-whelmed with gratitude for you and what you are making possible in Haiti? Families brought back from the depths of poverty, isolation, and despair through new...
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