Another World is Possible
The first time I gave any serious thought to Latin America was probably during a postmodern literature course I took in the dead of winter during my undergraduate degree. Winter in my hometown is long, and dar...
The Voice of the People
Advent has always been my favourite season of the year. The weeks leading up to Christmas are the only time I actually enjoyed the snow and subzero temperatures of my native Winnipeg. I always liked the soft si...
Introducing Konbit Peyizan
For 37 years, the Haitian staff who operated from MCC’s office in the town of Desarmes have walked for miles every day, up mountains and through rivers in Haiti’s Artibonite Department, to work in remote and vu...
Memories of Trauma
Annalee Giesbrecht is the MCC Haiti Advocacy and Communications Co-ordinator. Read more about MCC's work in Haiti at haitimcc.org.
At 3 p.m., after a full day in the waiting room of Haiti’s central tax offic...
Building a City of Peace
Annalee Giesbrecht is the MCC Haiti Advocacy and Communications Co-ordinator. The above photo is of Alex Pierre.
Of the dozen or so people sitting talking together in a Port-au-Prince neighbourhood called T...
Even planting trees was a political act: MCC in military-governed Haiti, 1987 to 1994
Annalee Giesbrecht is the MCC Haiti Advocacy and Communications Co-ordinator. You can find more stories about MCC Haiti's 60 years of work on the MCC Haiti blog.
Lesreste Sidort started working for MCC in 1...
Interactive Timeline: MCC in Haiti: A History
Alexis Kreiner is from Akron, Ohio. She graduated from Malone University in Canton, Ohio, with a degree in Communication Arts (Public Relations). She is currently working co-ordinating communications materials ...
Working Towards a Livable Haiti
Annalee Giesbrecht works with MCC Haiti as part of the SALT program.
Frantz Janvier runs a papier mâché workshop just outside of Jacmel, Haiti, where he lives in a brightly painted home on land that has bee...
Climate change and food security in Latin America and the Caribbean
Darrin Yoder is regional disaster coordinator for Central America and Haiti with MCC. He lives in Managua, Nicaragua. This article was first published in Intersections and is part of our ongoing series on food ...