The Third Choice

I was an ambivalent teenager when I first followed my father to Haiti in the late 1960s; not sure that I wanted to visit a country smothered in abject poverty…

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Listen, and you will hear voices empowered

One of the most important committees of each cooperative is the Supervision Committee. It is their function to hold the cooperative management accountable to the membership. This is not an…

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Documenting Haiti

About a year ago, I was sitting at the breakfast table in Wall’s International Guest House when I saw a chuckling, energetic group of people hop into a white pickup…

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I Have Followed the Clouds to Shangri-La

A euphoric feeling swept through me as I beheld the waves of green, etched against a brilliant, blue Haitian sky. This was the lost city, a jewel, hidden from the…

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True Development must be in the Hands of the People

“… If true development is not by the people for the people, it will fail.” I must have heard this statement a thousand times over the years as Jack’s daughter.…

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