by Beyond Borders | Feb 14, 2014 | Ending Violence Against Women & Girls, Our Blog
This Valentine’s Day, we’re asking loyal supporters like you to Share the Love and forward this message to friends wanting to help end violence against women and girls in Haiti. When was the first Valentine’s Day, and what kind of love was...
by Beyond Borders | Feb 12, 2014 | Ending Violence Against Women & Girls, Fundraisers & Events, Our Blog
Today, we’re launching our Share the Love campaign to expand the network of people working to end violence against women and girls in Haiti. Every day, hundreds of activists lead the struggle to end domestic and sexual violence in their own communities. Every day,...
by Beyond Borders | Jan 27, 2014 | Our Blog, Providing Rural Education, Volunteers & Friends
Guest contributor Marcus Ellsworth is a poet living in Chattanooga, Tennessee who was a participant in Epple Seed Arts’ Artists Pilgrimage to Haiti. Croix Des Bouquets is a small community just outside of Port Au Prince. It announces itself to visitors with a...
by Beyond Borders | Jan 20, 2014 | Ending Child Slavery, Our Blog
When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. announced his dream from atop the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, it seemed impossibly idealistic. In the midsts of the deeply ingrained racism of the early 1960s, he dreamt that his “four little children would one day...
by Beyond Borders | Jan 14, 2014 | Our Blog, Providing Rural Education
The earthquake that struck Haiti four years ago this Sunday was the deadliest natural disaster in the history of our hemisphere. But it wasn’t the strength of the quake that primed Haiti for such unimaginable death and destruction. Instead, the forces that drove...
by Beyond Borders | Dec 26, 2013 | Ending Child Slavery, Our Blog
I’ve not seen many grown men sob like Eddy’s father did. Mr. Felix was trying to explain that he had never agreed to send his 10-year-old son away, even though the neighbors kept pushing him to. The neighbors saw in Mr. Felix a single father who couldn’t afford to...
