http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:23:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/09/haiti_education_digicel_stranksy/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/09/haiti_education_digicel_stranksy/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 16:03:23 +0000 Alex Fischer http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=36271 Haiti faces ongoing pressures of high population growth, high illiteracy rates and low primary education completion rates. On April 30, the Haiti Research and Policy Program’s Dialogue Series welcomed Sophia Stranksy, CEO of the Digicel Haiti Foundation, to discuss the foundation’s primary education and youth programs and Haiti's challenges. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/09/haiti_education_digicel_stranksy/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/26/the-w-k-kellogg-foundation-contributes-to-the-port-a-piment-millennium-village/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/26/the-w-k-kellogg-foundation-contributes-to-the-port-a-piment-millennium-village/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:05:24 +0000 Tracy Slagle http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=24528 The Earth Institute has begun implementing an innovative project throughout the South Department of Haiti, and has added a new partner to this critical work, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The work includes the Côte Sud Initiative, covering all communes within the South Department, and the recent launch of the first Millennium Village in the Western Hemisphere in the Port-à-Piment watershed. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/26/the-w-k-kellogg-foundation-contributes-to-the-port-a-piment-millennium-village/feed/ 0