The KANPE Foundation

The marching band resumes its activities

November 25, 2020

The Baille Tourible marching band resumed its activities at the end of the summer to the joy of the 80 young people who are a part of it. After several months, the young people started playing their favorite instruments again under the direction of their music teacher, Jean Germain Duvelsaint. For the occasion, a rigorous

National Philanthropy Day is this Sunday

November 13, 2020

We want to take this opportunity to say thank you once again! Thanks to your support, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been able to set up programs to: – strengthen health measures in the community that we support in the Central Plateau in Haiti. – reduce food insecurity and loss of

Extending the Lifespan of Textbooks

November 6, 2020

In Haiti, a school textbook often has a very long lifespan. It goes from the older sister to the little brother, including the little cousin or the neighbor’s child. It is in this spirit that the books distributed to students during the past school year were collected and inventoried in the community that we support

On this International Creole Day, let’s talk about combite!

October 28, 2020

Today is International Creole day. Creole is a world rich with words that describe specific realities! Let’s take for example the word combite. In Haiti, a “combite” refers to a form of solidarity work practiced in rural areas where people from a community come together to carry out an agricultural task. Our beneficiaries often use this formula

World Food Day with COVID-19 in the background

October 16, 2020

For most of us, eating is just a routine. For many vulnerable communities like the one we support in the Plateau Central in Haiti, putting a meal on the table is a daily challenge. On World Food Day, we reiterate the importance of continuing to support the most vulnerable communities so that they can have

Today is Global Handwashing Day

October 15, 2020

Washing your hands regularly remains one of the most effective preventive measures to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. In the community we support in the Central Plateau in Haiti, we help the population to apply this hygiene measure through prevention campaigns, the distribution of hand washing stations, as well as soap and chlorine. Since the

COVID-19: A New Waiting Area to Strengthen Preventive Measures

October 8, 2020

In Haiti, our clinic in Baille Tourible has a new triage area. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of visitors that can be admitted into the waiting room has been halved due to compliance with physical distancing rules. . Covering an area of 46 square meters, the new space increases the capacity to accommodate

The Residents Participate in The Cleaning and Embellishment of Their Community

October 6, 2020

In Haiti, the residents of Baille Tourible care a lot about the cleanliness and beautification of their community. Since August, local women’s associations’ members have been cleaning the yard of our clinic and the road to get there on a regular basis. This work is in addition to other initiatives taken in the past, such

The “jaden lakou” to fight against food insecurity

September 18, 2020

Our “jaden lakou” project started at the end of August in the community we support in the Central Plateau in Haiti. This subsistence gardens project aims to enable 500 families, among the most underprivileged, to grow their own food and sell the surplus in the local market. Seedlings, plants and seeds of several varieties of

Improve living conditions through agroforestry

September 11, 2020

Agronomist Odinave Dominique is the manager of the experimental farm in the community we support in the Central Plateau in Haiti. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, he highlights the importance of this project for the whole community. “The experimental farm gives us the means to fight food insecurity while improving the living conditions