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e-News: July, 2010 Haitians Rebuilding Haiti Jeannette's trade school classes began June 1st. YEAH! Over 160 people registered [almost 1/2 women] for 3-months of intensive training that will aid Haiti's reconstruction. Your $100 donation puts one student through training. April
Trip to Haiti
The April trip with Co-chair Steve Smith and Ann Brophy and Treasurer Christophe Nicaise accomplished much. Many meetings took place with Pere Gracia, priest in charge, Institution Director Rudolph Eloi, and community representatives to collaborate on several projects. An Engineer was brought to Jeanette to survey the buildings for earthquake damage. Parents can now allow their children to return to school rooms knowing they are safe. The ambitious goal of opening the new trade school June 1st is now a reality, and we are well on the way to wiring the campus for internet and computer availability.
Ann has posted a wonderful slideshow of the April trip
Haiti's Independence Day The Haiti Project wishes you a relaxing, safe independence day with friends, family and great things to eat! Here are some fun facts about Haiti's Independence day: celebrated January 1st independence in 1804 from the French the day begins with pumpkin soup a huge parade and celebration is traditional in Jacmel patriotic motto: L'Union Fait La Force - Unity is our strength motto at the market: If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs |
New CoordinatorThe Haiti Project welcomes our new coordinator: Elizabeth van der Weide. Out-going coordinator, Dr. Jan Byrd will focus her wonderful energy on Medical issues in Jeannette.
Elizabeth (Heins) van der Weide is a transplant from Florida, much happier in warm, humid weather, so Haiti is a natural draw. She is a cradle Episcopalian, so attending St. Andrew’s in Madison and practicing a diaconal approach to ministry also feels natural. She and Dan have been married for one year, and they live in downtown Verona with 3 kids, 2 cats and a snake. Since she has a PhD in analytical chemistry, she’s happy in her new ‘other’ job working in Dan’s lab at UW Madison, having recently left sales & marketing for a local microscopy firm. She feels happiest being a connector, linking people and institutions for synergistic benefit, but herself working behind the scenes.
Elizabeth feels an affinity for Haiti, and is persistent in her approach to organizing support for the Haiti Project from all angles. She likes to say that she’s a human BASF, not making things, but making things better. Elizabeth likes recruiting bricks, and is happy being the mortar that binds them together. In this respect, she is similar to Haiti, whose greatest strength is the bonds that hold the people together, even if they themselves have nothing. Haitian
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