Monthly Archive for: ‘August, 2011’

Democracy Looks Like Someone’s Mom

Democracy Looks Like Someone’s Mom

On Fonkoze’s website there is this tagline: Building the Economic Foundations for Democracy in Haiti. Now often we run into taglines that sound awesome, but don’t really jive with an organization’s activity. Fonkoze’s tagline is not aspirational. If anything I think it’s the best descriptor I’ve seen so far of what they do. Democracy seems […]

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It’s All About the Kids

It’s All About the Kids

The “Solid Women” blew me away with their generosity and poise.  It’s not easy to do with multiple cameras in your face. Even as we said “no no, we promise… this is the last shot!” they would smile and let us get what we needed. We sat all five women down for an interview, and asked […]

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