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Thank you to Partners In Health for their welcome
Thanks again to Partners In Health for receiving us yesterday at their headquarters (Boston)! From left to right: Win Butler (Arcade Fire), Dre Fanette Nicolas (Doctor at the medical clinic of Baille Tourible), Fernet Léandre (Program Director, Zanmi Lasante), Isabelle Thibault (Executive Director, KANPE), our co-founder Régine Chassagne (Arcade Fire), John Malcolm (Chief Development Officer,
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Leadership: third harvest of beans by the young of the marching band
For their annual harvest, the young people of Baille Tourible’s marching band picked over 176 pounds (80 kg) of black beans! Almost 3 times more than last year. A very big congrats to them. In 2017, thanks to the teaching at the summer camp, they took the initiative, as a group, to cultivate black beans
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KANPE presented its work at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana
Earlier this month, our Programm Director Fritz Louis traveled to University of Notre Dame in Indiana to present KANPE’s work. Fritz is a graduate from Notre-Dame. HERE is a beautiful article that summarizes this meeting. Thank you to Notre Dame Alumni Association for the warm welcome!
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KANPE was at C2 Montreal 2018
Yesterday KANPE was C2 Montréal for the workshop “Design Thinking for humanity” with The Humanos Institute and Talsom. You couldn’t have been there? Diane Bérard, journalist at Les Affaires, was present and shared her experience! To read the article, please click HERE. You want to participate in the project to set up a cooperative for
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Haitian Flag Day in Baille Tourible
We start the week with pictures of the Haitian Flag Day in Baille Tourible. The festivities for this traditional haitian holiday were held last Sunday.
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From Hudson’s Bay to Haiti
Purchase your ticket for Hudson’s Bay Giving Day and get an exclusive 10-to-20%[1] discount valid April 6 only at all Hudson’s Bay stores across Canada or at thebay.com. All proceeds from these ticket sales will be donated to the KANPE Foundation for its work in Haiti. So it’s totally win-win ! I want my ticket ! How does
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Young people develop projects in agriculture
Every week, young people from Baille Tourible work on their projects in Agriculture: Secondary school students from the Baille Tourible school continue to take care of their nursery. Some seedlings, like papaya, are ready to be planted. The young people of the marching band started to prepare the new ground they were given to plant
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International Women’s Day
” It is difficult, when one photographs them, not to perceive the pride of the women of Baille Tourible; it emerges as much from their eyes as from their way of standing upright, hands on hips (in a “Superman” kind-of posture). These women are perfectly aware of their strength of character, and they are not
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Construction of a granary and a silo for the community
In February, with the collaboration of our partner Mouvement Paysan Papaye (MPP) and the financial support of the Roncalli Foundation, construction began on a granary and silo for the drying and storage of grain. This project will enable the community to be better equipped and less vulnerable in the case of epidemics or bad weather. In
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Statement of The KANPE Foundation about the sexual misconduct file
It is with extreme gravity and seriousness that The KANPE Foundation learned of the allegations of sexual misconduct against several international cooperation and humanitarian aid organizations. The KANPE Foundation strongly condemns these actions and has a zero-tolerance policy towards all forms of exploitation, harassment, abuse, and violence, be they physical, psychological, verbal, or sexual in
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