Two events highlighted the month of April for Return2Haiti...on April 8, Pierre, Cindy and Janice attended the University of Michigan-sponsored event “Pandemic! Contagious Crises from AIDS to Zika” that featured Dr. Paul Farmer, founder of Partners in Health and a hospital in the Central Plateau of Haiti. After his talk, we were able to meet
Sponsor local Belle Anse entrepreneur, Alexander Souffrant. Alexander is ready to start-up a Language Learning Lab and has asked us for help to get things going. Goal – 2017-2019 Cost - $1,000 - $2,000 startup This 26-year old young man was the president of his senior class at a small local high school, in Belle
MARCH 2017...our team of 9 traveled over the course of 2 days to Port-au-Prince, the first 7 members arriving on a Friday and touring the city before collecting the last 2 of our team from the airport on Saturday afternoon and beginning the journey by mini-bus to Marigot. Six out of the group were seeing
ESPRESSO ROYALE CAFE helps R2H gather rice and beans for hungry children in Haiti. Bring in a bag of rice and or black beans to Espresso Royale’s Plymouth Rd location, March 6th-9th in Ann Arbor and you will get 20% off of any coffee at the time of your donation. Return2Haiti will take this
When I was a child growing up in Bellanse, there was not an early childhood education program at close proximity. The nearest kindergarten was located in the town of Jacmel, a 24-hour journey by row boat. During the hurricane season, it was a 2 to 3-day trip, walking a trail through the mountains, until reaching
I am going to make this short...We learned, yesterday, of the death of this sweet little boy. He is the son of one of our teachers, we played with him during our last visit. He became ill, and although his parents were able to get him to the hospital in Jacmel, he wasn't able to
LIBRARY RENOVATIONS Goal - 2017 Cost - $5,000 The small building that we are renovating into a library needs significant repairs to the: ceiling, walls, flooring and to build tables and chairs and shelving for the books. With your contributions, R2H will hire people from Belle Anse to bring this library to life. To give
Preparing the books for the shelves Assembling shelving Sorting the books Our temporary location Our party (consisting of Patti, John, Kristin, Sully, Cindy and Pierre) left the town of Pichon on July 16, 2015, the last stop on a journey that took us from the U.S. to
Our trip to explore the coffee business took us from Santo-Domingo, Dominican Republic to the border-town of Pedernales. Just across the border lay the Haitian town of Anse-a-Pitre, a sea-side, rural city bustling with life where curious onlookers greeted us with a smile and people addressed us in the Haitian Creole, “Bonjou” for “Good Morning!”
Return 2 Haiti, co-founder Pierre Balthazar, describes the water situation in Haiti’s Belle Anse region. Finding a source of potable water when in the country of Haiti is not as simple as turning on the faucet – a habit we have been accustomed to in the United States for some time. Our mission team, visiting
