the hand-braided rug story
Held hostage. By the women in my yard. Two mommas from Jubilee. So, they show up with large black bags ... bulging black bags. And they begin to p...
Held hostage. By the women in my yard. Two mommas from Jubilee. So, they show up with large black bags ... bulging black bags. And they begin to p...
I love watching you sitting in the dirt with the little boys making cars out of oil cans…they fished them from the garbage dump, of course they ...
I drive down to Jubilee early this morning to work.The well is open and there are many children and adults crowded around and carrying precious c...
During my initial visit to Haiti, in 2004, i was changed by a specific situation that happened our first day in Port Au Prince. We were with a ...
I can sometimes hear these "moso" (“pieces” in Haitian Creole) fabric bits chatting it up when they find themselves as a finished product. Sharing...
The middleman always gets a bad rep, but let’s face it, without the person in the middle it would be extremely costly and take a LOT of time to fly...
2nd Story Goods director and founder, MK has been living on the ground in Gonaives for almost 8 years. She's built a socially and ethically consci...
"Describe your daily routines and why you do them." The title of this article scares me! I think of routines as disciplines, and I am so not that ...
Have you noticed our #changetheshape hashtag? Wonder what it means? It is a reference to the Bottom of the Pyramid (or BOP). “The bottom of the py...
You wanna know one of the main reasons 2nd Goods Is able to do what we do? It’s because of YOU, the customer. You said yes to being involved in th...
Today the topic of conversation began as “Is it ok for school teachers to whip, slap or grab and twist the ears of our kids? One of our moms ca...
sons, not thugs.Last week we closed on the property! The Marketplace Gonaives is in our hands. After almost 3 years of work, process, doubt, fear, ...