SUSIE’S BLOG

This story contains graphic content and images. It may not be suitable for all audiences.   Hello All, I write with a heavy heart today. Our Mission Director in Haiti, Erline, has been [...]

Hi everyone! I still wake up every morning in disbelief that the story of my life is being made in to a musical for the world to see.  And now it has a name “UNFOLDED”.   I am honored, I have [...]

Conflict and calamity remain as frequent reminders of longstanding turmoil in Haiti. All of us at our U.S. administration office know that it isn’t your average office job at HaitiChildren. The [...]

Hello Everyone!   It’s time for another weekly artist feature, as we continue celebrating the artists who will make the musical based on my book, Angels of a Lower Flight. I am so humbled by [...]

Hello All! Everyone at HaitiChildren is so excited about our upcoming fall fundraiser. It is a particularly special event, as we will be celebrating the artists who will make the musical based on [...]

Hi All, I am writing from Haiti, where I have been spending time with the children and our HaitiChildren staff for the past week. I am sad to leave, but I look forward to getting home and working [...]

As we approach a concert fundraiser on Saturday, October 26th, 2019. The team at HaitiChildren is truly enjoying working with composer Theodore Christman to organize this special event. In [...]

  Friends and family, I am extremely concerned as our HaitiChildren staff continues their heroic efforts to care for our children.  The possibility of a national revolution to force [...]

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HaitiChildren continues to operate in the diabolical conditions of the country.  Our staff have to leave their homes at 5am in order to arrive at our orphanage, clinics and schools at 8am.   [...]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse clashed with police Thursday as some tried to storm barriers outside the National Palace [...]

Hello friends and family, We are monitoring the current situation in Haiti with grave concern. While, again, Haiti is in a state of political unrest, the children and staff are safe. All schools, [...]

Thousands of angry Haitians marched in protest in Port-au-Prince on Sunday, decrying corruption and stepping up calls for the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse, who has been implicated in [...]

Imagine that you were in Peoria this morning and that you needed to take your little boy to the pediatrician. Let’s say he had been sick for four days with a fever and cough. He is whiney because [...]

Gunfire has been reported at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The State Department said Monday afternoon the gunfire was “coming from the rear entrance” of the building, and [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my early days in Haiti. About everything I didn’t know back then, and all I’ve learned in the past twenty five years since. This is part II [...]

We know their names, and where they were. But no one has given a public explanation for what several former elite U.S. service members were doing in Haiti — and why they were driving without [...]

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) The languid whack of a ceiling fan stirs the heat around the Intensive Care Unit. It’s the only sound on the ward. Because there is none of the life-saving [...]

MEXICO CITY – Thousands of Haitians took to the streets of Port-au-Prince on Friday in the latest display of public fury at the government over rampant corruption, economic malaise and [...]

Anti-corruption protest in Haiti turns into referendum on Haitian president BY JACQUELINE CHARLES November 18, 2018 06:24 PM Updated November 19, 2018 08:07 AM As Haiti commemorated the 215th [...]

I can only imagine how each of you may feel today. We all lost so much on this day in 2001. That morning, 17 years ago, I was completely at peace reading my devotional, sipping milky coffee with [...]

As a hard driver of myself and others, I learned a valuable lesson last week that I think is worth sharing. Timely and accurate reporting from Haiti is how I hold our organization accountable. At [...]

Associated Press Article Please read the following article written by the Associated Press late last week that appeared in hundreds of newspapers around the world. I have some thoughts that I [...]

Overwhelmed With America Father Worthley, Dr. Bob Vizza, and Tom Christman were excited to share the plans of the day. After breakfast, we would go to the CHINA GROTTO OF OUR LADY OF SHESHAN [...]

HaitiChildren Arrives! After months of planning and praying and imagining what it would be like when five of our children and Madam Erline arrived at JFK Airport they were finally here and [...]

We have been talking about this issue for many years and are happy that CNN has revealed the truth about problems we witness all too often. As CNN mentioned, there is active brokering of children [...]

Hello my friends, I’m so thrilled to share my stories, deep personal truths, and some emotionally expensive lessons during 25 years of work in Haiti. From the start, I’d like to speak directly to [...]