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The Quebec City Summer Festival supports KANPE
July 12, 2010The Quebec City Summer Festival will donate 25 cents for every person who attended the July 12 Arcade Fire concert on the Plains of Abraham. The Festival also gave exceptional support to KANPE, allowing the organization to enjoy considerable visibility on site, including through a KANPE kiosk, where volunteers talked about KANPE’s Haitian initiative and
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A new initiative from Quebec is lauched for Haiti
July 12, 2010In Quebec City today, Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire, and Dominique Anglade launch KANPE, an initiative aiming to fight the cycle of poverty in Haiti with a view to establishing Haiti as a model of development.. Kanpe is a Haitian Creole word meaning “to stand up” (pronounced kahn-pay). The newly launched KANPE seeks to put
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Dominique Anglade takes action in Thomonde
June 30, 2010In May, I visited Haiti’s Central Plateau, including the community of Thomonde, to try and understand the extent of the challenges facing this region. My visit to Haiti made me aware of just how much work there is to be done. But I also saw incredible resilience. I met an HIV positive woman, in good
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