by Angela Galbreath | Jan 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
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 what it means to use...
by Beyond Borders | May 11, 2022 | Ending Child Slavery, Ending Violence Against Women & Girls, Our Blog, Providing Rural Education, Uncategorized
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 are working tirelessly to overcome poverty, prevent violence and abuse, and develop leaders. You can read the latest on...
by Beyond Borders | Feb 8, 2022 | Ending Violence Against Women & Girls, Our Blog, Uncategorized
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. Emanuela and Sara share how the team has adapted empowerment programming for girls living with disabilities during difficult...
by Beyond Borders | Dec 9, 2021 | Ending Child Slavery, Ending Violence Against Women & Girls, Fundraisers & Events, Our Blog, Providing Rural Education, Uncategorized
Mireille transformed her trauma in to strength to become a leader. We’ve all been wounded in some way. Thankfully, we’re not all survivors of something like child slavery that threatened our very existence. Today Beyond Borders is launching the More Than a...
by Beyond Borders | Dec 14, 2020 | Ending Child Slavery, Fundraisers & Events, Our Blog, Uncategorized
I’m feeling both distressed and hopeful as I write to you now. We keep a running list of children who we believe are enslaved in domestic servitude in Haiti. Last month colleagues added the names of 166 children from eight Port-au-Prince...
by Beyond Borders | May 22, 2020 | Ending Child Slavery, Ending Violence Against Women & Girls, Fundraisers & Events, Our Blog, Uncategorized, Volunteers & Friends
We are finishing out week 9 of lock down at home and week 9 since the first coronavirus case was declared in Haiti. I hope this finds you and your loved ones still healthy and safe. I promised to keep you updated on what is happening in Haiti – with the virus,...
