Imect courtyard, with new doors and material for levelling playground, November 2011
Report November / December 2011
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New photos just sent from the school (link above to album) show the half-doors which keep distractions to a minimum for the children (and prevent vagrants from sleeping in the school and vandalising furniture), new desks, our water collection system for handwashing and cooking, a huge improvement in hygiene! Plus the new toilet block, in use while it’s still being plastered and finished outside, and the remains of the old school rubble cleared around it. We have new pictures of all the grades (Pre-K to 6th) and teachers, cooks and cleaner!
SEE NEW SMALL BUSINESS PAGE TO HELP SUPPORT US!
Report Feb / March 2011
Mandy made a second visit to MORNE TAPION, to see what has been achieved, plan the rebuilding of the first permanent classroom, and help paint and decorate the school. It was great to see the current students, 162 children aged 3 to 17, under a sound roof, in their smart gingham uniforms, avidly absorbing the lessons. We’re now funding teacher salaries, school lunches, latrines, a water tank and handwashing facilities, and levelling the ruins to begin building. Mandy also took donated equipment, pencils and erasers, wall posters, soprano recorders and music books, DVD player and English courses for afterschool use, and 2 huge First Aid kits, and taught some lessons, while painting the school and finding out more about community needs.
IF YOU WANT TO HELP -
$20 WILL buy textbooks for 2 to 4 children
$30 WILL buy a desk that seats 4
$50 PAYS the salary of a kindergarten teacher
$500 PAYS for a 500 gal water tank and handwashing facilities
$1000 RUNS the whole school for a month
$10 000 BUILDS a permanent classroom!
IMAGINE THAT! For the history of the project at Morne Tapion see IMECT pages.
These are people who have already given their community so much – they deserve some help, and they will put it to good use. Ongoing links that help children stay in school, modernise Haiti’s condition, and help our children in the US and “First World” understand and appreciate their own education benefit us all. We hope to forge a longterm relationship with the school by helping in their hour of need and then by continuing involvement that connects primary school children in our communities with Tapion children, as penpals, and later by internet and visits to Haiti.
Donations from artists, private persons and businesses are fully tax deductible thanks to our sponsorship by St Croix Foundation.
See CONTACTS PAGE.
Please make checks to St Croix Foundation, with 100% for Haiti in subject line.
Mail to: 1023 Market Street, Christiansted, St Croix, VI 00820
100% For Haiti’s Committee: PETER DYBING (Logistics & Disaster Response, publicity)
PHILIPPA FORWARD (Fundraiser, Treasurer), ANDRE MCBEAN (Fundraiser, Artist)
BOB MCDANIEL (Art Curator), MANDY THODY (Organiser, Secretary, Web Co-ordinator)
See Sales Gallery page to view – art always for sale online!
WE HAVE A FACEBOOK PAGE AS WELL – WITH MANY MORE PHOTOS, ARTICLES OF INTEREST AND FREQUENT UPDATES: http://www.facebook.com/pages/100-for-Haiti/282674848036
