by Angela Galbreath | Jan 17, 2024 | Featured, Home Page Boxes, Our Blog
The journey out of extreme poverty has begun for 160 families on Lagonav Island — thanks to sponsors in Beyond Borders’ Family Graduation Program. This past November work began with these families who make up the sixth and largest-ever cohort. Over the...
by Angela Galbreath | Jan 17, 2024 | Ending Child Slavery, Our Blog
This past December, thanks to our generous supporters and the European Union, Beyond Borders brought together leaders from more than 10 Haitian women’s rights organizations to strategize about advocacy and violence-prevention plans in 2024. And in October,...
by Angela Galbreath | Jan 17, 2024 | Providing Rural Education
Students at 90 schools on Lagonav Island are getting a high-quality education taught by well-trained teachers who care — thanks to Beyond Borders’ supporters. School directors, teachers, and parents at these schools are rethinking the traditional approach...
by Angela Galbreath | Jan 17, 2024 | Our Blog
From PBS: Every year on January 1st, Haitian Independence Day, Haitians celebrate their ancestors’ hard won freedom from slavery and French colonial rule by making soup joumou. In this episode of the PBS program Ritual, host Tank Ball explores...
by Angela Galbreath | Jan 3, 2024 | Ending Violence Against Women & Girls, Featured, Our Blog
10 Local Women’s Rights Groups Strategize Advocacy and Prevention Tactics for 2024 Over the past four years, Haitian women and girls country-wide have been exposed to higher levels of violence. However, in the areas where Beyond Borders’ Rethinking Power...
by Angela Galbreath | Dec 21, 2023 | Featured, Our Blog
A reflection by David Diggs It’s getting late on Christmas Eve, and I’m six years old. My Grandma is staying with us, so I’ve had to relinquish the twin bed in the room I share with my older sister. I’m lying under a quilt on a cot...
