Steven Werlin

To Fool the Rain

Haiti's Poor and their Pathway to a Better Life

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To Fool the Rain thoughtfully chronicles Steven Werlin's journey with Fonkoze, but it is also the story of Fonkoze itself. Presented in vivid detail are the lived experiences of Mirlene, Micheline, Ti Rizib, Monique, Rose Marthe, Alta, and other Chemen Lavi Miyò participants, who have benefited in many ways from this remarkable program. As Werlin makes clear in To Fool the Rain, there is no single pathway to a better life. The stories of each of these women are the stories of Fonkoze: individual beginnings, challenges, and successes bound together by the themes that pattern life in rural Haiti.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-9973633-0-2
EAN: 9780997363302
Produktnummer: 32633326
Verlag: Ti Koze Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 258 S.
Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D1.7 cm 475 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
Gewicht: 475

Über den Autor

Steven Werlin has been a faculty member at Shimer College, in Chicago, since 1996. That same year, he also began traveling to Haiti. He started working with Fonkoze in early 2005 and continued to help with various projects for its communications, grant writing and education teams until March 2009, when he became the manager of its branch in the southeastern town of Marigot. Since 2010, he has been working for Chemen Lavi Miyò (CLM), Fonkoze's program for the extreme poor. He started as a regional director and is now the communications and learning officer.