Vesline is now a beautiful young single woman with a handsome seven-year-old son. She finally left the father of her baby after he beat her so badly that she temporarily lost her eyesight. Thankfully, her sight came back, and the incident gave her the courage to be...
Clivia still works as a jewelry maker in our artisan center in Port Au Prince. She has not had any more children, and she relocated to a new house after the death of her baby son. As so many mothers with broken hearts in Haiti do, she just carries on and hopes for...
Callie still lives in Port Au Prince and is now married to that cute translator, Bekenson Pierre. She is the head of marketing and branding for Papillon, and has launched Papillon’s online store, helped start the screen-printing program, and is a cheerleader to all....
The original three bead rollers who started as teenagers have all matured into young men and have families of their own. They all work for Papillon, and as of the summer of 2017, were granted badges with access to the US Embassy in Port Au Prince where they work at...
I first met Junior while living in the orphanage where he was a teacher for the older kids. Raised in New York, but never having gotten his legal status in order in America, he was deported back to Haiti at age nineteen and has not seen his family in over a decade. He...
Novens currently works for Papillon as a courier. He has been unable to finish high-school in Haiti, because of his lack of command of the French language—something he never learned in the orphanage. We are looking for a private tutor to help him finish and complete a...
