Aphta and Maudline
This is Aphta and her son, Louis Marquis (14 mos). Aphta is a metal stamping artist and has been with us for two years. Louis Marquis was left with a neighbor and then his Grandmother so that Aphta could come to work. His Grandmother was ill and not able to care for him properly. Aphta […]
Gina and Makensia
This is Gina and her 6 month old daughter, Chrisnaly. Gina has only been working for us since the beginning of May. She is a single mom and she had no income and no way of caring for Chrisnaly and it was showing. She approached Shelley about a job and also inquired about an orphanage […]
Meet Some of Our Babies!
Apparent Project has the desire to create long-term sustainability through the creation of job development and skills. This enables, empowers and equips Haitians to provide for their families with dignity and hope. As many of our high risk single moms, enter into training and acquiring jobs, they have a need of child care. Child […]
Daycare Center Update
Makensia and the twins! The Daycare Center is up and running! After only 3 1/2 weeks, we are so pleased to notice that several of our artisans kids who were showing symptoms of malnourishment are looking so much better. Their skin is clearing up and they have so much more energy. On top of a […]
Exciting News and How You Can Help!
Apparent Project began in late 2009 with four women who were at risk of relinquishing their children to an orphanage because of their economic situations. Four and a half years and a whole lot of jewelry later we are excited to see the difference that this project has made in the lives of nearly 250 […]
What would you do with all of your power?
As I work and drive and wander and sweat around Haiti, I often find myself with the same song stuck in my head. Every time this happens, I have the same response; I know exactly why the song has come to mind and I immediately think, “I really need to write a blog about this…” […]
Death threats, getting this blog rolling again, and Oprah.
The votes are in! According to the poll from our last blog you are far more interested in our recent brush with Haiti’s criminal element than all of the other potential topics combined. I would love to tell that story, but as I’ve hesitated for two months now, I think I should just move on. […]
Peanut Butter and Shelley
This blog is inspired by my wife Shelley’s passionate facebook plea with a Wisconsin church to not send peanut butter to Haiti. I thought a more in depth explanation might be helpful, interesting, and possibly motivational, so here goes… http://www.wqow.com/story/15278291/church-to-send-more-than-20000-jars-of-peanut-butter-to-haiti Now that Haiti has dropped from fad-disaster-charity-icon status, it is good to see a few […]
A night of hell/ the maternity ward
Last night almost crushed me. Let me start at about 5pm. I was just finishing up a nice day at the Apparent Project studio, working with some ladies on beading when Rodney, one of our “street boys” approached me and said his mom was really sick… again.. and would I come to their tent. They […]
Art for Apparent
J. Ackman has made 100 prints of this beautiful piece of art to sell to benefit the work of the Apparent Project. Help us build new homes for our homeless Haitian friends and get a sweet piece of art for your home at the same time! The Blog about the work can be seen here: […]
