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"Good words are worth much, and cost little."—George Herbert any of these words speak to you or remind you of someone you love? grab a magnet stam...

She works with such intensity. I watch her face as she sews. There is a heavy calm there. as if she has mastered  the art of carrying the weight o...

DON'T FREAK OUT.   A, “Learn Love”, tattoo,  but I can’t decide where to put it…   This phrase comes from lyrics by Shawn McDonald, “What are you...

Something about being with the deaf.  It’s like entering another country ... again. First of all, the class is full of students, all ages 12 year ...

We visited a man that makes aluminum cooking pots for his living. He has a small thatch hut on the very outskirt of the village Jubilee. His domai...

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...