Meet Rebecca Obounou, President & Founder of CHES International Moving away from friends and familiar surroundings can be traumatic at any age. But when Rebecca Obounou was at her most crucial stage—adolescence—her Haitian immigrant parents moved their family from Massachusetts, to a rural town in Northern Haiti.

      Earthquakes. Devastation. Poverty. Corruption. Oppression. NGOs. These are the words most of the world associates with Haiti. And while those words reveal a partial reality, they are not a complete narrative. This summer, Educate Haiti Now (EHN) will launch #HAITIisMORE as a response.

Students at CMD have been reflecting on how they can improve the state of their country. Read below to hear what ideas JKaël and Bithson came up with.