Thrive Ansanm Blog

Typically, when asked to give money to non-profit organizations working overseas, we’re used to seeing pictures of poor, malnourished kids standing next to huts…

While many schools and businesses are temporarily closed down due to protests in Haiti, Josh and Beth Gray, Thrive Ansanm Haiti’s Co-directors, sat down…

The journey was not far. Down the hill, beyond the busy road and through a labyrinth of rebar and concrete. We followed a dirt pathways lined with cloudy streams, in between wafer board walls...

Growing up is challenging for young people all across the globe, and it isn’t any different in Haiti. Young people here deal with the same adolescent problems relating to school, friendships,...

A few weeks ago we were traveling through downtown Port-Au-Prince from our home in Carrefour, Haiti, which is in the southwest part of the city. The distance is not far, but this small, island...

I first met Kiki on paper. I was looking through Thrive Ansanm scholarship applications to learn a little more about our students…I wanted to know more about their lives, their interests

Elie didn’t know how he would ever afford college, but last fall he received a Thrive Ansanm scholarship that enabled him to begin his freshman year at the University…

The morning sun shows itself over the horizon, stirring to life a slumbering city in preparation for the day ahead. It rises each morning consistently like clockwork and so must he. A husband of...

As I was waiting for breakfast this morning, I stood by the gate in our front yard looking out over the street as I often do. The street is always busy with people going to and fro, but this morning...