Some of the best times I spend in Haiti are when we can go way out into the real countryside and visit the families who are part of our Family Security Program. This week I have had the wonderful pleasure of visiting four different areas and meeting the families living there, some of whom walked […]

Travel with Gillaine Warne to the rural village of Moreau – where the Family Security Program is nourishing, thriving, and changing communities. An early morning start to hike through the beautiful rolling hills behind Lachateau to the village of Moreau. Here we have another 15 families who have benefited from our extended Family Security Program […]

Exciting News from CFFL (Centre de Formation Fritz Lafontant) in Haiti CFFL is excited to announce the graduation of 36 more students on January 27th, 2017. The Graduating Class of 2016 will be made up of 22 Genie Civil (Construction) students — including 4 women for the very first time — and 14 Woodworking students, also […]

Four years ago you helped us build a state-of-the-art vocational school, CFFL — the Centre de Formation Fritz Lafontant — in Corporant, Haiti. Located in the Central Plateau, this poorest part of the poorest country in the Western hemisphere offered little, if any, vocational opportunities for young Haitian students. Your support has changed lives. Watch […]

Hurricane Matthew, one of the most severe hurricanes to hit the Caribbean in decades, has caused wide-spread devastation to Haiti and to the many rural communities and agriculture programs supported by Partners In Agriculture and our wonderful donors. Although the storm has passed our work is just beginning. Crops have been devastated, livestock lost, and […]

Thanks to the outstanding generosity of Michelin North America — based in Greenville, South Carolina — and the hard work of Mr. Richard Ameris, the CFFL school bus can now resume its route taking staff and students up and down the mountain twice a day, with brand new tires. Michelin has donated a full set of tires for […]

Fertile Ground for Transforming Lives Zanmi Agrikol has initiated another innovative outreach program in agriculture – a school garden program targeting the impoverished school kids and destitute families in the little village of Morne Michel. Located atop the mountains of Haiti, Morne Michel suffers from high rates of malnutrition, chronic food insecurity, and the daily […]

Today was a special day for the graduated students of CFFL. Mr. Claude Alexandre, the co-founder of Habitat for Humanity in Los Angeles, the business officer for the Haiti Development Group, and a board member board of Fonkoze — the largest micro finance institute in Haiti — challenged recent CFFL graduates to foster creativity, think […]

We are happy to announce and welcome the new Director of Agriculture for CFFL : M. Jean Philippe Dorzin. Jean Philippe actually comes back to us here in Corporant after several years furthering his experiences in the north of Haiti, learning, teaching and doing research on peanuts and other cultures. JP obtained his Agriculture Licence/Degree from […]

A Taste of Honey, a Touch of Passion, and a Hint of Mango Well, our two master Buzzzzzzzzzzz men, Claudet and Schemler, are very busssy fencing in our bees to keep out unwanted animals, and also planting lots and lots of moringa trees along with other desirable pollen producing plants for the many bee hives we now have. […]