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Checking in with College Canapé Vert
  and JAMBARS, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
                       March 2026

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Photos by Monsieur Petit Phar.

SUFC's Partner in the Canapé-Vert district of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, the College there, founded by Marie Marthe
Balin Franck Paul there 52 years ago, continues to serve more than 500 Students, Monday through Friday.

Students in Sciences heed lectures and are hands-on in Experiments.

Boys and Girls run relays and drill forward and backward.

One student recites and receives applause.

More of Checkers.

More of something like Study Hall and more of smiles.

Enter JAMBARS--more specificailly, enter the new Mini Jam version of the Chocolate Cha Cha. one of 5 Kinds of the breakthrough energy-bar produced in Marin County, USA. Jennifer Maxwell, founder of this company and co-founder with her husband Brian of the pioneering Power Bar, has given 1000s of JAMBARS to students in Haiti since 2021 and has supported Sticking Up For Children since 2013. 
 

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Check Jennifer Maxwell out in Local News Matters.

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JAMBARS at CCV and at the EFE School and FEPE orphanage, 2021 and 2022.

And the "Manje JAMBAR" Song that Madame Franck Paul created in Spring 2022--and that eight-year-olds recorded tunefully then--kicks in again, above.

For the Song with a keyboard accompaniment and more Rehearsal by a 3rd-Grade class at CCV, please HEAR below.

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We'll close with a last set of Links, courtesy our great friend David Amram, as he talks about the prodigious Haitian musician, drummer Ti RoRo, and how Max Roach came to find Ti RoRo as his PEER.

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Please do check out, too, David and the wonderful composer and writer Henry Cowell on how special both Ti RoRo and Haitian musical hybrids ARE ... in the October 2020 Web-Page on stickingupforchildren.com.

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Ti RoRo, Jean Remy, Max Roach, Charlie Parker, David Amram, ... will
EXCITE you, we feel!

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