Youth Earns Aslan Scholarship and Becomes an Engineer at NASA Earnest M. grew up in a single-parent home and started attending Aslan at an early age. He participated in Right Choices, tutoring, our long-distance biking program, and summer camps. An Aslan [...]
Bring Hope This Holiday Season One Young Boy, Separated from Twin Sister, Overcomes Adversity and Trauma Kerry K. joined Aslan in 1989. He was raised in a single-parent home and never knew his father. When he was in eighth grade, Kerry’s [...]
Bring Hope This Holiday Season Aslan Youth, Struggling with Educational Deficit, Attends Culinary Arts School and Becomes A Head Chef Quanise P. first started coming to Aslan as a 13-year-old, later than most. Aslan youth normally serves children starting at age [...]
May 2018 Just walk in and flush your toilet. That's all you need to do to realize how difficult life is in Haiti. This country of over 11 million people sits 500 miles off the coast of Florida, and almost none [...]
February 2018 If I allow myself to, I see Haiti with “fresh eyes” each time I return to this wonderful country. Although I’ve never had the privilege of visiting Africa, everywhere I looked today I knew I was seeing Afrik (Africa [...]
September 2017 Dearest Friends, I am thankful to report to you that it appears Haiti has escaped the worst of Hurricane Irma. I am unable to reach my dearest friend, Israel Joseph, but reports I’ve read about Ouanaminthe mostly indicate severe [...]
February 2017 Okay. I’m just kidding with the title of this blog – more about that later! Today was “take our truck across the border into the Dominican Republic” day. We’re allowed to do this for only one reason. Booz (pronounced [...]
February 2017 Every time I come to visit Haiti I am reminded of how wonderful the Haitian people truly are. At the same time I am also reminded that every joy in Haiti is tinged with sadness. There could not be [...]
