John & Merline Engle: Haiti Partners
John and Merline Engle are the co-founders of Haiti Partners, an organisation that has been helping Haitians change Haiti through education for over a decade.
In this conversation, Mark covers:
Their unusual first year of marriage
And why climate change impacts the most vulnerable people on the planet the most severely
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About John and Merline Engle
Merline and John Engle, co-founders and co-directors of Haiti Partners and Merline is founder and CEO of Merline's Caribbean Hot Sauce.
Working together with the community in Haiti where they lived for years to create a school-based community development model.
Treasure Trove:
What's One Thing Most People Don't Know About You?
Our rustic and simple living during our first year of marriage.
What's Your Favourite Book?
Merline: The Power of Now
John: The Prophet
What's Your Favourite Quote?
Merline: I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou
John: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt
Links:
merlines.com and haitipartners.org
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