Welcome to the Loving Haiti monthly newsletter from your Haitian Partners (of ten years) of the commune of Pignon.  We want to bring your attention to several developments that continue to evolve in our country. In terms of weather here, the climate has passed from cold to hot, and we are approaching the rainy season. The farmers are beginning to work their lands for the planting season even as they doubt that the temperature will relent. We are not having any rain yet, but our hopes are high. As a result, our mountains are dry, trees are losing their leaves, and rocks are more common th ..read more

    Pastor Francois (right side of photo) celebrating the annual Harvest Festival at Philadelphia Baptist Church Our February 2024 newsletter aims to keep you updated with the current situation of our country (Haiti) as well as to update you about the grand celebration of the Harvest festival and baptism organized by our ministry in Pignon.         It is our pleasure to let you know of how daily life is here in Haiti (specifically Pignon). Schools, whether public or private, only operated until the third week of January and planned to reopen for the year 2024 in ..read more

Business in Pignon: A difficult season for most business owners Still safe from the violence and chaos in the southern part of Haiti, the north suffers from the same economic hardship and food insecurity gripping the rest of the country.  This month our friend Darling shares photos of a few local businesses to give us a feeling for the economy in Pignon:  This water business continues to operate successfully as clean water is a primary need for those Pignon residents who do not have access to a well.  This business also operates as a phone recharging facility, another must ..read more

Our monthly newsletter is based on Mother’s Day, a holiday celebrated in Haiti every last Sunday of May.  We asked several mothers to share their thoughts about this day! -Darling Seriphin Yolette Rosier (Madame Darling Seriphin) and son I greet you under the protection of our divine redeemer and thank you for taking the time to read this letter. First, I am the wife of Darling Seriphin, Yolette Rosier, married on the first of December 2020. I feel so happy to talk to you a bit about the grand celebration of Mother’s Day in Haiti. It is a blessed day to see children who honor the ..read more

Journal of the month of April 2023 We thank you for your frank collaboration through the various requests submitted by Loving Haiti for the benefit of the Pignonaise community that you share. We are back with the aim of helping you get some idea about the functionality of people in Haiti, specifically the people of the city of Pignon. Wanting to remind you that it is a monthly newspaper. You will sometimes have things repeated and that sometimes will not be registered (especially those that are the most common / daily such as the scarcity of fuel, food products, building materials) k ..read more

“To those who loved, love and will love, life will be exciting.” Darling included the quote, above, at the beginning of this month’s newsletter.  It seemed only fitting to include this loving photo of his family.  This month he writes: We thank God for always being with us, investing all his presence in our daily lives to prove his unlimited existence and his sovereign and permissible will. We are back with our updates, sharing little stories about the life and the functioning of the Haitian people and the people of the Pignon community. Again, our ritual does not cease to describe ..read more

      School at Last! “In life there is no other name than the name of Jesus.” With that, we greet you fraternally in the name of our mighty Creator. And we already wish you “Best Wishes” under divine protection.  Bonjour, bonsoir!           Our journal for the month of January 2023 consists of congratulating you on your support for the Haitian people, more specifically  Phila Académie des Petits, the entrepreneurs, the microloan program, the family responsible for the distribution of food kits in Pignon (Pido Pierre) and other beneficiaries ..read more

        In our everyday lives in Haiti, we often use this word which comes from the Creole “Atche!”. This word marks, among other things, astonishment in the face of any situation. For this, I use it to show you how difficult our political, social, and economic situations are, to name but a few.           The human being is the essence of life on earth but in the face of our egos, no one can better understand how to meet the daily earthly demands. The land of Haiti especially, is now worse due to lack of appreciation of innovative ideas and/or unde ..read more

Here’s what our friend, Darling, shared with us this month about the start of the school year and hurricane season:   My most distinguished and respectful greetings. August is the month when all Haitian parents in general and those of Pignon find themselves in a real puzzle for the new school year which usually begins in September of each year. With an inflation rate of more than 29% according to IHSI (Haitian Institute of Statistics and Informatics), the country has not experienced this alarming situation since 2004. This situation puts parents in Pignon in trouble. Even at the public m ..read more

  Facing Food Insecurity in Pignon by Darling Seriphin It is once again our great joy to share with you about the daily situation here in the community of Pignon, Haiti. In the media, there is constant news about the state of life for the Haitian people. But we want to tell you that the diet of many families is going from bad to worse. For this reason, Pierre Pido, an entrepreneur residing in Pignon, married (a wife and a little girl), invests in the field of printing and stationery and he considers it of capital importance to support for a few days around 200 families. With the great su ..read more