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Hi, I'm Rich Gosser

Tags: Accountability, agriculture, agro-forestry, Education, haiti, micro enterprise, rural, sustainability, sustainable development

About Me

Username: piphaiti
Sex: Male Age: N/A
Hometown: N/A
Country: United States
MOST Passionate About: Education

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Member of: 4 Causes
Connections: 7 Friends
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My Bio

After spending 30 years as a mathematics professor I'm now "rewired" in the role of executive director of Partners in Progress, a non-profit that promotes and supports sustainable community development in rural Haiti.

Favorite Quotes

"Education is the foundation for all change." Mme. Jocelyn, a teacher at the St. Antoine elementary school in Fondwa, Haiti

"All systems are fragile, failing, or broken."

Places I've been

Grew up in PA, studied in Durham, England, hitch-hiked through Europe, lived for a summer in each of the Dominican Repbulic and Bolivia, and a spent a year teaching in Honduras. My work now focuses on Haiti and particularly the rural community of Fondwa.

Languages Spoken

English, Kreyol, (rusty) Spanish

My Media

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St. Antoine elementary and secondary school

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My Groups

Global Rainwater Harvesting Collective

Location: Global
Why I Joined: Haiti is the most "water poor" country in the world so we're interested in rainwater harvesting!
Joined Group On: 10/01/2007

Solar Household Energy

Location: Global
Why I Joined: Partners in Progress (PIP) promotes and supports sustainable community development in rural Haiti, the most environmentally unsustainable country in the world.
Joined Group On: 09/30/2007

Razoo Group leaders

Location: N/A
Why I Joined: Just getting started with "social networking" (for a cause). Partners in Progress promotes and supports sutainable community development in rural Haiti, the "most impoverished" (economically) country in our hemisphere.
Joined Group On: 09/30/2007

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Visit to Monwi (Montrouis)

Today I hired William, an old friend and a good "chauffeur" to drive my friend Rosemary and me to Montrouis, a pleasant town about an hour and a half North of Port au Prince along "Naitonal 1", one...Continue Reading
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Today is an historic

Today is an historic date in Haiti. It was February 7, 1986 that marked the departure of Jean Claude Duvalier and the end of a 30 year dictatorship that began with the "election" of Francois "Papa...Continue Reading
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I first met Fr. Rick

I first met Fr. Rick Frechette, CP around 1992 when my wife and I began bringing groups to Haiti on what we called "reverse mission pilgrimages". (Unlike missionaries of another era who went to fo...Continue Reading
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