In My TBR Stack:

To Fool the Rain: Haiti's Poor and Their Pathway to a Better Life
by Steven Werlin
Ti Koze Press
Trade Paperback

From the publisher's website:

To Fool the Rain tells the story of the women who use the Chermen Lavi Miyo program's help to change their families' lives.

 

"Werlin takes us on a riveting journey down narrow dirt paths and up steep ravines to introduce us to some of the courageous women in Haiti's Central Plateau who are climbing a staircase out of extreme poverty through Fonkoze's Cherman Levi Miyo program."

--Gerald Oriol, Jr.

Haiti's Secretary of State for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities

"Steven is able to capture so eloquently and respectfully, the day-to-day lives and struggles of these brave women. It is a prayer lifted on their behalf."

--Garcelle Beauvais

Actress, author, and talk show host

"To Fool the Rain should be required reading for anyone who has either dreamed or doubted that a poverty-free world is achievable, or wondered what it would actually take to realize that ideal."

--Alex Counts

Founder, Grameen Foundation