Youth In Action
What we are doing
The January 12, 2010 earthquake damaged at least 90 percent of schools in Port – Au Prince, Haiti. With as many as 5,000 schools damaged or destroyed; many students are now worried about their future. We need to make the future of Haiti feel valuable and alive again by encouraging and working with them to rebuild the schools.
We must all step up and use our resources and talents to elevate education in Haiti. By sponsoring education, we will enable them to break barriers, achieve their dreams, and change the cycle of poverty and suffering they’ve known for too long.
With so many schools across Haiti wrecked by the earthquake, many might be indefinitely out of session if we don’t reach out to them. Students in Haiti have lost their homes, family members, friends, teachers, neighbors, and hope, but we can help by stepping up to help them rescue their future and their dreams under the rubble.
Rebuilding the schools destroyed by the earthquake will be a long term process requiring great patience since Haiti's infrastructure was so devastated.
Currently they are using mobile classrooms or tents to jump start education. They are in immediate need of educational supplies: books, pens, pencils, uniforms and other learning materials.
No one group can help all the schools destroyed or damaged by the January 12, 2010 earthquake. We must have a focused plan. We just need to remember this is the time to empower the new generation who are the hope and the future of Haiti and then we can let them take the lead.
As part of our focused project, we’ve decided to help Catherine-Flon, a K-12 school in Carrefour, Haiti that was destroyed by the earthquake. College Catherine - Flon was built in 1975 in Carrefour. The school has been the heart of the community providing a great education, a safe environment for students, and a stable place of employment for many. Since 1975 until January 12, 2010, Catherine – Flon has been the constant reminder of how powerful and life changing education can be.
We are committed to help them shine again despite the catastrophe.
Our project:
Phase One: Assist Catherine Flon with school supplies as they trying to start school during the month of April.
Phase Two: Rebuilding plans
Phase Three: Psychosocial assistance. Open friendship and communication, so we can all learn with the students.
We must all step up and use our resources and talents to elevate education in Haiti. By sponsoring education, we will enable them to break barriers, achieve their dreams, and change the cycle of poverty and suffering they’ve known for too long.
With so many schools across Haiti wrecked by the earthquake, many might be indefinitely out of session if we don’t reach out to them. Students in Haiti have lost their homes, family members, friends, teachers, neighbors, and hope, but we can help by stepping up to help them rescue their future and their dreams under the rubble.
Rebuilding the schools destroyed by the earthquake will be a long term process requiring great patience since Haiti's infrastructure was so devastated.
Currently they are using mobile classrooms or tents to jump start education. They are in immediate need of educational supplies: books, pens, pencils, uniforms and other learning materials.
No one group can help all the schools destroyed or damaged by the January 12, 2010 earthquake. We must have a focused plan. We just need to remember this is the time to empower the new generation who are the hope and the future of Haiti and then we can let them take the lead.
As part of our focused project, we’ve decided to help Catherine-Flon, a K-12 school in Carrefour, Haiti that was destroyed by the earthquake. College Catherine - Flon was built in 1975 in Carrefour. The school has been the heart of the community providing a great education, a safe environment for students, and a stable place of employment for many. Since 1975 until January 12, 2010, Catherine – Flon has been the constant reminder of how powerful and life changing education can be.
We are committed to help them shine again despite the catastrophe.
Our project:
Phase One: Assist Catherine Flon with school supplies as they trying to start school during the month of April.
Phase Two: Rebuilding plans
Phase Three: Psychosocial assistance. Open friendship and communication, so we can all learn with the students.
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Our goal for the May 22nd is 200 people commit $10, a total goal of $2000. This is a long-term effort and commitment which will benefit students who participate whether or not they are in Ayiti. We commit funds as an act of solidarity amongst family wherein our responsibilities to each other are reciprocal. The Media students will gain valuable life experience from the organizational process, from identifying the similarities we share as Afrikan people, and develop their skills as media developers and producers as opposed to media consumers. The latter being a critical and foundational goal for Afrikan youth to tell our own story, to own our own story and thereby, as Kwame Nkrumah reminds us to be engaged in the “interjection of the African personality onto the worldstage”. In return for all this, we hope to provide encouragement in the form of funds, supplies, physical support, and plain ole hope to the students and community of Carrefour.
