Lavanche Octabe is a 36-year-old man who lives in Pont Morel. He spends his days working hard in the fields as a farmer. YourStory...

Maggie Gina is a sixty-six-year-old grandmother of eight. Before the earthquake in 2010, Maggie was a vendor and found great joy in her...

Eighteen-year-old Louidane Paul's interview led the community development team to momentarily forget about the scorching heat. Louidane's...

Jacqueline Guerrier is thirty-four years old and has lived in Nolivos her entire life. Faced with difficulty throughout her life, her...

Check out this awesome video created by session two UMass YSI advocate, Krista O'Brien.

A mother arrives with her two children and is greeted by Gia, our patient manager. Gia asks their name in Creole, assigns them an...

Despite the hardship she faced as a result of the 2010 earthquake, Andrelie Thermitus stays strong. At seventy-six years old, she has not...

Thirty-six-year-old Carole Maurice has lived in Haiti her whole life. She has two children who are both currently attending school. She...

Born and raised in Léogâne, Carline went to school for ten years but, unfortunately, had to stop because it was too expensive. While in...

Author: Niamh Mulrooney School: UMass, Amherst When your chapter became affiliated with YSI: May 2014 Why you joined YSI: Engage myself...

The first thing you notice about fifty-four-year-old Berson Jean Jacques is his warm, welcoming smile. After he agreed to answer some...

A lifelong resident of Nolivos, forty-nine-year-old Benitha Paul appreciates life and everything in it. Tremendously thankful for the...

“Delivering aid in a culturally meaningful manner” and “fostering personal, mutually beneficial cross-cultural relationships” are two of...

This summer has been a huge success for YourStory International. We hosted seventy-six advocates across seven eight-day sessions from May...

Though public health has quickly grown to be our largest sector here at YSI, the organization was originally founded upon the goal of...

Why is Haiti poor? This is a really, really complicated question. Once, on an assignment in downtown Leogane, I was sent with a team to...

You see them everywhere driving through Port-au-Prince—spindly stems of exposed rebar protruding from the tops of concrete walls. These...

Day 1: The first day of each of our sessions is very similar. The advocates go through orientation, presented by the officers and board...

Doctors Without Borders left Leogane last year. The National Hospital in Port-au-Prince will close by the end of 2016. That means the...

Haiti’s spunky attitude towards visitors is on display from the minute they step off the airplane. In the midst of the dizzying frenzy,...