by Beyond Borders | Oct 15, 2013 | Our Blog
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...
by Beyond Borders | Oct 10, 2013 | Ending Child Slavery, Ending Violence Against Women & Girls, Our Blog, Providing Rural Education
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...
by Beyond Borders | Oct 7, 2013 | Ending Child Slavery, Our Blog, Providing Rural Education
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...
by Beyond Borders | Sep 30, 2013 | Ending Child Slavery, Our Blog, Providing Rural Education
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...
by Beyond Borders | Sep 20, 2013 | Ending Child Slavery, Ending Violence Against Women & Girls, Our Blog
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...
by Beyond Borders | Sep 19, 2013 | Our Blog
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,...
