Fundraising Dinner for Zanmi Lakay at Bissap Baobab

Thursday, May 26 · 5:30pm - 11:00pm 2323 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 826-9287 www.bissapbaobab.com On May 26th Zanmi Lakay is taking advantage of Bissap Baobab's generous offer to host a fundraiser so we can all enjoy a wonderful meal together while helping children in Haiti, and our organization will receive 20% of the entire evening's profits from the restaurant! This is a great excuse to feast on delicious Senegalese food! Come on down and say hello and dine for a great cause! Please invite your friends and family and help us pack the place! ...

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Thank you Etón!

Etón, a local company that helped us with earthquake relief with a donation of 50 windup flashlight radios with solar power and cell phone plug in last year, posted our thank you card on their website. There are 50 very grateful people in Haiti, and we are too!  

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Getting Ready for Haiti

We've been preparing for our February/March 2011 trip to Haiti, and last weekend Susan Bradley and I put the Care Bags together that we'll give out to street children. Care Bags are zip lock baggies containing a new t-shirt, soap, shampoo, toothbrush and tooth paste, comb, mini-pad of paper and pen, and for the older boys we include razors. We add other items if we have them available like vitamin-C candy, decks of cards, and other goodies. The boys that wash cars on the street are always very thankful, and one time I handed out a couple of Care Bags while at a stop light ...

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Yoga for Haiti! Benefit for Zanmi Lakay


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 ...

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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 ...

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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!

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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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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