Interesting article from the New York Times. Plenty of issues to consider as the textile industry continues to be a focus for proving employment in Haiti.   By VIKAS BAJAJ The deaths and injuries of thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh raise the question of how American and European consumers might assert their power to [...]

I Came to Haiti to Do Good …   By NORA SCHENKEL Port-au-Prince   WHEN I was living in Haiti, people often asked me for money. Strangers in the street held out their hands to me on the rare occasions that I walked by on foot. The construction workers shoveling sand in front of my [...]

Check out our Indigogo campaign – and help out if you can. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keep-the-consider-haiti-farm-safe-and-secure  

  The UN is accused of negligently allowing peacekeeping soldiers to pollute Haiti’s water with cholera. A UN cholera expert agrees that this is “most likely” to be true. The UN rejected an earlier call for compensation and continues to insist it is immune from legal proceedings. Every time I write about the cholera crisis [...]

(From the New York Times.) At a news conference during the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in late April, Jim Yong Kim held up a piece of paper with the year “2030” scribbled on it in pen. “This is it,” said Kim, the genial American physician who took over [...]

At Carolina Day School, we encourage and support global citizenship among our students. One of the many ways that this fits into our curriculum is through our Fifth Grade Charitable Fund. Every Friday morning, fifth grade students sell pizza to students and staff and then use their profits to donate money to various local and [...]

The Christian Science Monitor Port-Au-Prince, Haiti Haiti, one of the world’s most deforested countries, launches its first national tree-planting program next month. President Michel Martelly’s government calls the effort “a big signal” that the administration is determined to reverse environmental degradation and address one of the main causes of poverty on the Caribbean island. Stripped [...]

Some of you may recall that our Fond Baptiste buck – inaptly named Lucky – died unexpectedly last year. We’ve been borrowing a buck since but this week were able to acquire a new buck to breed with the mountain herd. This is a good example of donor funds meeting specific needs. Working together, Consider [...]

Meet Ora, the new buck at the Montrouis farm (named after the kind donor). He’s apparently downright feisty and raring to go. Let’s make more goats for Haiti!

There is no easy way to get to our clinic site in Iviore. Which is exactly why we go there….