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On the way to Bois Jolie
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Zanmi Foto Training Day 3
Today’s plan for training with our CFFL partners is sketched out above. We are moving forward with the Photo Survey of Zanmi Lasante, as Caroline Minchew and Chandler Sowden build a list of survey locations, priorities and key data points. Meanwhile, Brooke Irvine is working with Marie Flore Chipps Lafontant to setup a workplace for… more →
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Zanmi Foto training days 1 and 2
News, PES, trip logs, Viewfinder
Zanmi Foto in bubbles

After years of planning, we begin to bring Zanmi Foto into practice. Our CFFL student partners (the bright green bubble) will be at the center of a community development project that uses photography and discussions around photographs as a way of building resilience and building a development narrative (‘soft data’). The photographs and discussions will… more →
PES, trip logs, Viewfinder
Day 1

Mirabeau Sainville, Agronomy student at CFFL, discussion the Zanmi Foto project [photo: Pradip Malde] We have completed our first day here at Centre Formacion Fritz Lafontant (CFFL) where we met our four students and introduced them to the Zanmi Foto project. Three of the students are studying agriculture and the fourth is studying woodworking. All… more →
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Arrival in Cange

The Zanmi Foto group, after a long day of travel, has made it to Cange. We spent last night talking with old friends and meeting new ones. Today will be day one— we planned our first training day with the CFFL students over breakfast and are ready to meet them this afternoon! Today will be… more →
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Too Hot for Coffee Nat Geo reports on a growing crisis
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Haiti Prime Minister promises “free, fair and honest” elections in 2014
{Political News} During a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Lamothe reiterated the commitment of his team and President Michel Martelly to democracy and the rule of law, of which regularly organized free, fair and honest elections remain an inescapable corollary. Read more: http://www.caribbean360.com/category/news/haiti_news#ixzz30Eu614O3 S. Dixon Myers dmyers Coordinator of Outreach University of the South 735 University… more →
Coffee, News, Zanmi Agrikol
Watch this video of Spring Break ’14!

This March, 22 Sewanee students, faculty, and staff traveled to Haiti to participate in the 2014 Haiti Outreach Trip. It was an incredible trip and the Sewanee students did so much work to help Zanmi Kafe. Watch this video of the trip that one of the stellar students, Emmie Oliver, made. Peligre and Prestige Make… more →