Please Remember Haiti
It has been one year since the devastating earthquake shook Haiti on January 12, 2010, at 4:53 pm.
We will be mourning and honoring those lost in the quake and hoping that the international community will continue supporting and helping the millions of Haitians still surviving. We are thankful that all of the children we sponsor in our education program are healthy and in school (Papouche even graduated from carpentry trade school!), and the organizations and programs we partner with are still running to help so many more children in need. Their lives however are much ...
Open House Holiday Ti Machés in Pacifica and Palo Alto
To all of our Zanmi Lakay friends,
We have three sales coming up for your holiday gift shopping! Please join us in Berkeley, Pacifica, and/or Palo Alto and share these events with your family and friends! (Berkeley info in previous post)
All proceeds benefit our educational, outreach, and photography programs, increasing awareness of the beauty of Haiti, and keeping the artisans of Haiti working and supporting their own families!
We have received so much beautiful art just in the last month including recycled traditional and painted metal art for home and garden (4 ...
Our biggest Ti Maché of the year!
This Weekend, November 27 and 28, in Berkeley. We have a huge variety of brand new art fresh from Haiti. Come on out for your holiday shopping and support our educational programs for street children and our Photography Workshops!
Zanmi Lakay Exhibit in San Francisco – Reception: Thursday, November 4th at 6pm
Upcoming Exhibition - "Haiti: In the Spirit of Zanmi Lakay"
Opening Night: November 4, 2010 6 - 9 PM
PhotoNight / Artist's Talk: 7 PM
The San Francisco Exposure Gallery presents a new exhibit entitled, Haiti: In the Spirit of Zanmi Lakay featuring photography by The Zanmi Lakay Haiti Street Children’s Photography Workshops and a selection from the project The Legacy of Lafanmi Selavi by Zanmi Lakay co-founder Jennifer Cheek Pantaléon.
For more information: www.exposuregallery.org
Our Annual Education Fund for Children and Teens in Transition
It’s back to school time in Haiti! Given a chance, empowering children enables them to improve their quality of life. This is still our philosophy and it is critical now because so many schools in Haiti collapsed in the earthquake. Our Education Fund includes two programs that are keeping children and young adults in school and we are asking for your continued support to help these kids for 2010/2011.
Last year when we began our School Sponsorship program we had eight children that were immediately funded, and this year we have at least seven more children on our list ...
Benefit for Zanmi Lakay – Helping improve the lives of Haitian street children
El Tecolote
2958 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 648-1045
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 • 7:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts • 2868 Mission Street (x 25th Street) San Francisco Talk and Slideshow • Haitian Art Sale • Music
$5.00 admission
Zanmi Lakay is a non-profit, all volunteer organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for current and former street children in Haiti. For over 13 years Zanmi Lakay has held photography workshops for street children. They learn to use film, pinhole, and digital cameras to ...
Through the Eyes of Haitian Children opening at Venice Arts
MEDIA ALERT
Contact:
Elysa Voshell, Venice Arts
310–578-1745 | elysa@venice-arts.org
WHAT: Through the Eyes of Haitian Children, photographs of Haitian life taken before and after the devastating earthquake by youth participants in the Haiti-based project Zanmi Lakay (Haitian Creole for Friend’s Home). The project has been working with street children in Haiti for over 13 years, and was recently featured on “Lens,” the photo blog of the New York Times. The Price of Sugar, a film screening about Haitians working in slave-like conditions in the Dominican ...
Article on our students work at the Palm Beach Photo Centre
A nice article that includes Zanmi Lakay's photography students from Art Creation Foundation for Children and their participation in a show at the Palm Beach Photographic Center - so proud!
Haiti Blog Update #5…finally
It has been very difficult for me to finish our report and re-visit our experiences in Haiti from January and February, to put together words and photographs showing what we did and what it was like. When people ask us how our trip was, the answer is elusive or short…it was bad, but we do what we can. I keep saying that Haiti was bad on a good day, but if you’ve never been to Haiti then it’s hard to understand. The devastation after the January 12th earthquake that measured 7.0 at 4:53 pm was so widespread and the needs so great that at first I was saying it was ...