Issue 60:

Restoring Dignity, Building Strength

Even before the earthquake, Haiti had become very dependent on charity.

While aid is justified in a crisis, handouts become humiliating over time. Beyond Borders believe in a different approach. Instead of offering aid that focuses on needs, we offer training and tools that equip people and whole communities to build on their own strengths. Each success helps restore dignity and leafs to growth of movements that bring broad and lasting change.

-David Diggs, Director

Photo Right: Wislene Leo, a child rights advocate trained by Beyond Borders, shows her daughter her training certification as a new member of the Child Protection Committee in the Plas Ponpye neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. Wislene works as a skilled volunteer to protect vulnerable children in her own neighborhood and build the movement to end child slavery nationwide.