August 2018

When anyone can choose to sponsor a student in Haiti and give that child the gift of education, “it is an opportunity to learn what it means to give back to another culture,” she says. Haiti might be thousands of miles across the ocean, but as Rodriguez points out, in many ways, “Kozefò is right in our backyard.”

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August 2018

Most of the kids were adopted after a catastrophic earthquake the year before, but the need for quality education was so great within the surrounding communities that Lein and her Haitian staff felt drawn to respond to that need.

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March 2016

As she boarded, Lori looked back at the mountains and city, and she made a promise to never forget Haiti. “I knew that I would always hold a special spot in my heart for Haiti and that I would always do what I could for this homeland of my son,” she said.

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February 2016

"It was astonishing and heart-breaking to see the conditions in which they live," Miller said. "However, the Haitian people have such hope, love and happy hearts. They have so little, but yet so much."

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January 2016

Students in LuAnne Oklobzija's class videoconferenced with a grade school in Port-au-Prince last week. It was the second time the students connected from 3,200 miles away. And it likely won't be the last. 

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July 2012

Lein—who worked as teacher in the St. Paul school district for more than 20 years and now serves as special education resource coordinator—said she didn't want to approach her experience there as an American who thinks she can fix everything. "I just went with an open mind and an open heart," Lein said.

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