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This year's conference will delve deep into a more sustainable Haiti and offer invaluable insights and strategies that will shape the future.
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Haitian Ladies Network® founder Nadine Duplessy Kearns, center with the steering committee, wanted to empower women to address “the triple crises facing Haiti and centuries of escalating turmoil.”
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Best-selling author and Haitian literary icon Edwidge Danticat delivers the keynote at Haitian Ladies Weekend 2019.
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Ce premier week-end d’octobre, Washington était le point de conjonction de plusieurs dizaines de femmes haïtiennes venues de divers endroits des États-Unis afin de participer au “Haitian Ladies Weekend”. Ce qui ne fut au départ qu’un brunch entre amies il y a treize ans a évolué pour devenir un des grands moments de retrouvailles de la diaspora féminine haïtienne chez l’oncle Sam.
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On Sunday, October 8th, Ambassador Paul Altidor and the Haitian Ladies network hosted the 12th annual “Haitian Ladies Brunch” at the Embassy. What started off as a small gathering of a few friends is now a memorable occasion of friendship and fellowship among hundreds of Haitian and Haitian-American women from all over the country.
Register for Haitian Ladies Weekend 2023
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