Mon P'tit Village School in Haiti

Hello Families,

All proceeds of the cookbook we will be selling next week will go to Mon P’tit Village, the same school in Haiti we walked for in the walk-a-thon when we were in 3rd grade. The price of two cookbooks will feed one child hot lunch for a week. For most of the children at this school, this is their only hot meal of the day. Last month we met with Yoleine, the co-founder of the school and she told us all about it.

The school was made to provide the community with a nest for educational growth and environmental safety. Since February 1997, NEGES has served as a vital Haitian-American led not-for profit 501(c) 3 organization. Operating in Léogâne, they work with townspeople and post-earthquake internally displaced families in Dampus (a rural area with three encampments). They work to create systemic change to impoverished communities through education, capacity building, and health initiatives.
Their 8-acre campus offers education, health and environmental safety programs. They have hosted, staffed and programmed a bilingual (Kreyol and French) elementary school, teacher trainings, and summer camp. They also have a hospitality & volunteer center, an herbal medicine shop, a food-crop nursery, and an internet cafe. 

The rebuilt NEGES school reopened this fall, enrolling more than 160 children kindergarten through level 4, and they plan to add a grade each year through high school. Although most parents are unable to pay their tuition fees since the earthquake, they are making every effort to ensure that no child is denied an education.

For more information please see their organization's website at: http://www.negesfoundation.org.

We will be selling the cookbook at the Health Week Info Table outside the office during arrival and dismissal next week (December 12th-16th).  We look forward to seeing you there!


Thanks,
The LSA2 Health Team