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While digital access and literacy are becoming increasingly necessary, 3.7 billion people, most of them women and people living in low-income countries, lack internet access (UN). Globally, internet access runs the gamut from 14.3% of people in Africa to 76.4% of people in Central Asia (Brookings)...

For Canes Camil, working at Bon Sel was part of “a puzzle where each of its pieces was somewhere, and at the right time, the pieces came together to give a complete picture.” Described as “called” by colleague Jim Reimer, Director of the Haiti Salt Project, Canes sees his work at Bon Sel as an...

Meet Makenzy Voltaire, one of our Haiti-based supervisors and trainers, working with the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) Haiti’s SEL and parent training programs! Makenzy has collaborated with the GC-DWC on a number of our projects. He is an integral member of the...

Jamison Greene has been awarded the inaugural Earl Carter Fellowship by the University of Notre Dame’s Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child’s (GC-DWC) Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) team. The Earl Carter Fellowship is the GC-DWC’s newest designation to honor the life and legacy...

The University of Notre Dame’s Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child Haiti has been awarded $2.24 million from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to enhance school data collection systems in Haiti and equip schools with data-backed processes to improve student learning and development...

A Haitian student must overcome significant obstacles to receive a robust education in a setting where the government spends only 2.7% of its GDP on education (compare this to the 4.5% average GDP for all Latin American and Carribean countries) (World Bank, 2017). Limited investment in teacher...

The University of Notre Dame’s Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) has launched its newest initiative aimed at fostering locally-led, sustainable development projects. The GC-DWC’s Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) integrates market forces, sound business principles, and...

The Institute for Educational Initiatives ’ ACE Haiti program, a project dedicated to improving the lives of Haitian children, families, and communities through cutting-edge research and implementation of early childhood, literacy, and community development interventions, has joined the Institute’s...

How do you build a school? For Chris Low, it started with a simple pencil. Chris Low used to teach at a bilingual school —Haitian Creole and English— in the Cambridge Public School Department (CPSD). Given the school’s direct connection to Haitian culture and history, she always sought out...