Celebrating Children in Haiti!
Each year on June 1 the world celebrates International Children's Day.
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Mar 62 min read
Overture Ambassadors Show Their Haiti Love!
March 1, 2024 E-Newsletter The Lenten season is a time when many churches and people of faith come together to help others in need and...
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Jan 313 min read
Haiti Love 2024 = Fostering Love
February 1, 2024 It’s that time of year again to thank you, our supporters, for ALL the Haiti Love you’ve so faithfully and generously...
Overture International
Jan 303 min read
Progress Outlook 2024
Building Haiti Stronger every step of the way! As we enter a new year of work empowering our friends in southern Haiti to continue their...
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Apr 16, 20231 min read
Rebecca's Education and Empowerment Journey
Rebecca is a prime example of the power of Education and Empowerment in transforming lives. Rebecca was separated from her family at the...
Overture International
Aug 30, 20222 min read
Widline's Hope
Education means life - a life of hope for the child, a life together for the family and life with promise for the community. The story of...
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Aug 13, 20221 min read
Meet Lorencia
Like many families in Haiti, the Timeau family faced an agonizing choice after losing their income in the aftermath of the 7.2 magnitude...
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Jul 1, 20221 min read
Meet Love
Love Yodne, age 20, will graduate from our Young Adult Empowerment Program (YAEP) in July. He was born into a family of seven in the...
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Jul 1, 20221 min read
Meet Stevens
Stevens is 22 years old and is a student in our Philo program at our ESPWA school. Philo is a university prep class and is a requirement...
Overture International
Dec 6, 20213 min read
Disaster Leads to Opportunity
Overture International is turning calamity into creative opportunities for learning new skills for our friends in southern Haiti.
Overture International
Nov 24, 20212 min read
This is YOUR Impact on Young Adults in Haiti!
Being a young adult in Haiti is fraught with challenges that most of us can’t imagine. As youth, many young adults were abandoned by...
Overture International
Jul 15, 20211 min read
Meet Lolia & Bernard
Lolia and her husband live in extreme poverty and have struggled for years to make ends meet for their two children, Bertholet and Lonia....
Overture International
Jul 15, 20211 min read
Meet Anel, Davidson & Jacques
All too often, children raised in orphanages have little motivation to learn self-sufficiency as they enter adulthood, resulting in full...
Overture International
Mar 15, 20211 min read
Meet Maxon
Maxon and his wife, Carline, yearned to give their five children a thriving future. But their extreme poverty made it impossible to...
Foster Families are Transforming Child Protection in Haiti
In recent weeks, Overture and IBESR have partnered to place six displaced special needs children with foster families.
Fostering Haiti Love
Building a Brighter Future Together In the heart of southern Haiti where Overture International serves, a transformative initiative is...
Progress Outlook 2024
Building Haiti Stronger every step of the way! As we enter a new year of work empowering our friends in southern Haiti to continue their...
Orphanages Are NOT the Answer! Part 2: Uniting Families
We’re excited to announce the release of our second booklet in our Orphanages Are NOT the Answer! Series - Uniting Families.
Food Security in Haiti - Progress is Possible
Haiti - A History of Dependence Haiti's long history of poverty and underdevelopment can be traced back to its colonization by the French...
From Reunification to Rejuvenation
Reimagining the Young Adult Empowerment Program For those who follow Overture’s work, you’ll recall that a little more than three years...
Leadership Haiti: The Power of Accountability
We can learn a great deal about leadership from scripture. From examples of how not to lead (Adam and King Saul) to exemplary leadership...
Empowering a New Generation of Leaders
Leadership means different things to different people. We have business leaders, political leaders, and even cultural leaders (often...
The Journey to Resilience
If you’re following Overture International’s work, you’ve likely noticed that lately we’ve been focused on the importance and role of...
Building Haiti Stronger
Many of you have participated in our quarterly Stronger Series virtual information sessions over the past year or so. The feedback we’ve...
A Better Way!
This month, we continue our four-part educational series focused on the importance of human development and social support in Haiti. This...
From Survival to Self-sufficiency
August 14th, 2021 is a day that will not soon be forgotten. Just one year ago a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the southern region of...
Foreign Aid: Harmful or Helpful?
In April, we launched the first session of our four-part educational series focused on the importance of human development and social...
Food Security Is Possible!
While challenges and crises are nothing new for Haiti, the ongoing and heightened political instability and gang violence is crippling...
Why “Stay Out of Haiti”?
This month, we launch the first session of our four-part educational series focused on the importance of human development and social...
A Glance Back, A Look Ahead
2021 is one for the books! As we cross the halfway point of the first quarter of 2022, we take one last look back on the amazing progress...
Recovery Isn’t Just About Buildings:
Overcoming Trauma in Haiti February marks six months since the devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake that injured thousands and destroyed...
The Journey to Haiti Stronger Continues!
At Overture International, we often experience a sense of tension between celebrating the amazing progress we’ve seen our friends in...
Housing: The Foundation for Building Haiti Stronger
Even before the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti in August 2021, most Haitian families were living in deplorable conditions due to...
Nutrition: Feeding the Future of Southern Haiti
As Americans, the vast majority of us are blessed to have a strong, reliable food supply and the means to afford serving nutritious meals...
Healthcare is Mission Critical to Building Haiti Stronger!
Did you know that: Haiti is THE poorest country in the Western Hemisphere? Six million Haitians live on less than $2 per day? Only 4.4%...
Disaster Leads to Opportunity
Overture International is turning calamity into creative opportunities for learning new skills for our friends in southern Haiti.
This is YOUR Impact on Young Adults in Haiti!
Being a young adult in Haiti is fraught with challenges that most of us can’t imagine. As youth, many young adults were abandoned by...
NOW is the time to make HAITI STRONGER!
A big “thank you” to all those who attended our most recent information sessions! We’ve received great feedback from participants and...
Hope for a Stronger Haiti
Thank you so much for your faithful support of Overture International. Because of the Lord’s provision through your generosity, we...
A Time of Endurance
August was a month of endurance for Overture International. After a series of compounding crises including a presidential assassination,...
Praying for Haiti
Assassination of Haiti's President Update July 10, 2021 (scroll down to view previous communication July 7, 2021) This is the time to...
Spring 2021 Reflections
Over the last two months, promises have been made and promises have been kept in Haiti. In April, we kicked off our HAITI PROMISE...
Importance of Public Health
Public Health is our first strategy to Healthcare Overture believes that education is the key to improving the long-term health of...
March 2021 Reflections
March was a month of CELEBRATION for us at Overture International. Why? Because we looked back at the miracles and the impact you made...
2020 Annual Report
I think we can all agree that 2020 presented some truly unexpected challenges. But the year also proved that Overture International...
February 2021 Reflections
Thank you for showing your HAITI LOVE throughout February! Our theme verse at Overture International is 1 Corinthians 13:13 – "And now...
January 2021 Reflections
It’s a new year for us at Overture International, and we are starting it #HaitiSTRONG thanks to our committed group of donors and...
Strong Families, Strong Haiti
In October, we held our first virtual information session and shared why orphanages are not the answer in Haiti, and thus why ESPWA is no...
Ending the Year HAITI STRONG
Hope for today. Promise for tomorrow. Haiti is only as strong as its children, families and communities. In the U.S., we’re blessed to...
Home for the holidays in Haiti
Christmas in Haiti really doesn’t look that different from other days of the year. There are no decorations or Christmas...
October Reflections
EDUCATION provides a child the opportunity to go to school AND stay securely with their family! We hope you enjoy reading our October...
September Reflections
EDUCATION is an important part of SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT – that’s why September is so special at Overture International!
Back to School Student Spotlight
When asked what job he wanted after he finished school, Frankel said, “I would like to work as an engineer or on windows.”
Family Preservation
There are many
misconceptions about orphanages, that if most people understood, they would fully support the family-based model.
It's Time for Back to School!
Our students and teachers are turning the page to a new school year, and we couldn't be more excited!
August Reflections
YOU make a DIFFERENCE! Thank you! We are excited to share the activities in August with you. Don't miss the video at the end of our post!...
July Reflections
Overture and ESPWA share a commitment to strengthening families, providing the best opportunity for children to develop. July reminded us...
From our heart to yours...
A big thank you to our supporters, back to school information, and more! All we can say is THANK YOU! First off, we didn’t want to...
A Family Restored Because of YOU
Seeing Your Impact in Action: Meet the Jn Claude Family! Imagine living in a one-room hut with tin scraps for your walls and a shredded...
ESPWA: June Reflections
June started off with a very exciting announcement – Overture International has assumed stewardship of ESPWA! We are grateful for the...
Get To Know Us!
This week, Overture sent an email to to follow up on our exciting organizational announcement and to share next steps about ESPWA and...
Happy Global Day of Parents!
Parents serve as their child’s head cheerleaders, main caregivers, first and best teachers, but most importantly, their fiercest...
Strength in Community As Coronavirus Cases Rise
The partners of Overture International have been at the forefront of Coronavirus response efforts in the Southern Department of Haiti. We...
God calls us to help others
God calls each of us to help others and love our neighbors. This is the reason Overture International was founded and supports...
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