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Lavanche Octabe
Lavanche Octabe is a 36-year-old man who lives in Pont Morel. He spends his days working hard in the fields as a farmer. YourStory...
Melaney Brown
Apr 14, 20171 min read
Maggie's Mangoes
Maggie Gina is a sixty-six-year-old grandmother of eight. Before the earthquake in 2010, Maggie was a vendor and found great joy in her...
Community Development
Mar 30, 20171 min read
Louidane Paul
Eighteen-year-old Louidane Paul's interview led the community development team to momentarily forget about the scorching heat. Louidane's...
Community Development
Mar 20, 20171 min read
Jacqueline Guerrier
Jacqueline Guerrier is thirty-four years old and has lived in Nolivos her entire life. Faced with difficulty throughout her life, her...
Community Development
Feb 27, 20171 min read
Session 2 Recap
Check out this awesome video created by session two UMass YSI advocate, Krista O'Brien.
Krista O'Brien
Jan 25, 20171 min read
Richeleo & Wawen Dina
A mother arrives with her two children and is greeted by Gia, our patient manager. Gia asks their name in Creole, assigns them an...
Emily Adelsberger
Jan 12, 20172 min read
Andrelie Thermitus
Despite the hardship she faced as a result of the 2010 earthquake, Andrelie Thermitus stays strong. At seventy-six years old, she has not...
Community Development
Dec 30, 20161 min read
Carole Maurice
Thirty-six-year-old Carole Maurice has lived in Haiti her whole life. She has two children who are both currently attending school. She...
Community Development
Dec 22, 20161 min read
Carline Petit-Frere
Born and raised in Léogâne, Carline went to school for ten years but, unfortunately, had to stop because it was too expensive. While in...
Community Development
Dec 15, 20161 min read
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Author: Niamh Mulrooney School: UMass, Amherst When your chapter became affiliated with YSI: May 2014 Why you joined YSI: Engage myself...
Niamh Mulrooney
Dec 5, 20161 min read
Berson Jean Jacques
The first thing you notice about fifty-four-year-old Berson Jean Jacques is his warm, welcoming smile. After he agreed to answer some...
Community Development
Nov 26, 20162 min read
Benitha Paul
A lifelong resident of Nolivos, forty-nine-year-old Benitha Paul appreciates life and everything in it. Tremendously thankful for the...
Community Development
Nov 10, 20161 min read
Mirlande Million
“Delivering aid in a culturally meaningful manner” and “fostering personal, mutually beneficial cross-cultural relationships” are two of...
Emily Adelsberger
Sep 12, 20162 min read
Summer Sessions
This summer has been a huge success for YourStory International. We hosted seventy-six advocates across seven eight-day sessions from May...
Emily Adelsberger
Aug 8, 20162 min read
The Community Development Interview Process
Though public health has quickly grown to be our largest sector here at YSI, the organization was originally founded upon the goal of...
Frank Schulze, Emily Adelsberger, Gordy Smythe
Aug 2, 20163 min read
Why Our Friends Were Left Out
Why is Haiti poor? This is a really, really complicated question. Once, on an assignment in downtown Leogane, I was sent with a team to...
Frank Schulze
Jul 28, 20163 min read
Rebar and Recovery
You see them everywhere driving through Port-au-Prince—spindly stems of exposed rebar protruding from the tops of concrete walls. These...
Joshua Garties
Jul 18, 20162 min read
Session 4, Days 1-4
Day 1: The first day of each of our sessions is very similar. The advocates go through orientation, presented by the officers and board...
Caroline Mountain & Emily Adelsberger
Jul 11, 20163 min read
Upgrading Our Leogane Clinic
Doctors Without Borders left Leogane last year. The National Hospital in Port-au-Prince will close by the end of 2016. That means the...
YourStory International
Jul 2, 20162 min read
The Most Important $10 You'll Ever Pay
Haiti’s spunky attitude towards visitors is on display from the minute they step off the airplane. In the midst of the dizzying frenzy,...
Frank Schulze
Jun 17, 20162 min read
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