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universal literacy for haiti
universal literacy for haiti
Helping Young People Create New Worlds
and Partners' Power of Good
Feeding Education.
Please listen as you browse, if you like to 'The
DREAMERS and the BELIEVERS' Instrumental.
The DREAMERS and the BELIEVERS Instrumental for SUFC copyArtist Name
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Forward Always 2025-2026
Sticking Up For Children's Partners in Haiti and New Orleans
again prove redoubtable, Autumn of 2025.
• The Foyer Espoir Pour les Enfants (FEPE) orphanage has moved from the Delmas district in Port-au-Prince to a country-side location in Northeast Haiti. The new rental building is 10 minutes' drive to a Beach on the Caribbean. Students are now enrolled in a Catholic School.
Two you may remember are pictured below in photographs again by Jean-Baptiste Olivier. Olivier, entered FEPE as a child orphan in 2010. Now Olivier is chief director for FEPE in its new location.
Amarie Felicia Rose, age 6,
Ambition Seamstress
Nico Scott, age 5,
Ambition Physician
• College Canapé Vert in that district of Port-au-Prince re-opened just three days after Hurricane Melissa hit Haiti as
a Category 1.
Madame Marie Marthe Balin Franck Paul, Principal at CCV since she founded the College in 1974, reprorted a COVID-era high of 524 Students attending CCV last Thursday!
Also, you may remember, CCV remains the site of recording for Haitian TV and Websites many of Madame Franck Paul's 19 books! Including her biography of Toussaint L'Ouverture!
Please check out Toussaint as an Audio-Book BELOW.
TOUSSAINT from CCV August 7 2025Artist Name
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Marie Marthe Balin Franck Paul's biography for young readers.
• Cayes Jacmel on Haiti's southern coast, Department Sud-Est, about 20 miles East of Jacmel, took direct brunt of Hurricane Melissa. Roads there remain underwater. Uprooted palm-trees still lie on houses.
Ladies of Cayes Jacmel who came together for learning to read and write under Madame Marie Yolene Désiral in 2024, onward into at least weekly Classes of Lekol Toupatou in 2025, have already rebounded. You may remember that these adult Students started a Business in latter 2024--Pwopté Toupatou.
Well, Pwopte Toupatou and its entrepreneurs are on the march along Haiti's southern coast. They're cleaning up!
More Tubs for more Bottles of Pwopté Toupatou cleaning-products in southern
Haiti, October 2025.
• The Kuumba Youth Academy of the Ashé Cultural Arts Center adds a great teacher and creator, Kelly Love Jones, for Guitar, Song-Writing and Voice.
• The DPRAM (Don Paul and Rivers Answer Moons) band that's allied with Sticking Up For Children Partners since 2024 continues to reach millions through play on Radio.
DPRAM's 2-CD album LOUISIANA STORIES is the #1 Crossover
Jazz album in North America, based on Plays over 225 Radio
Stations charted by Roots Music Reports, the past four Weeks. Hear all 12 Tracks HERE.
It's the #1 Jazz album in Louisiana for 33 Weeks since February 2025.
Four DPRAM Tracks have reached #1 this year on the PlayMPE Platform's count from more than 2100 Jazz & Classical RadioStations and other respondents worldwide.
Students and other Folks like to sing and dance to DPRAM Tracks such as "Get Your JAM On!", the Song inspired by Sticking Up For Children's benefactor, JAMBAR.
#1 Crossover Jazz album in North America, Roots Music Report's Chart for Nov 1 2025.
#1 Jazz & Classical Track on the PlayMPE Platform, June 19, 2025.
Roger Lewis, Don Paul, Don Vappie, Kirk Joseph of DPRAM at the New Orleans
Jazz Museum's Mint Theater for the Jazz Foundation of America, Sept 3 2025.
The Great Founders
of College Canapé Vert and FEPE
Please see. Madame Marie Marthe Balin Franck Paul is
Principal of College Canapé Vert since 1974. She's now 89.
CCV had 524 students the week after Hurricane Melissa!
SUFC is pleased to help with the broadcast of Lessons from Lekol Toupatou and many more of Madame Franck Paul's delightful and educational books in 2026.
Please check out the brilliant documentary about Mme. Franck Paul by Claude Bernard Sérant and his Team.
Please see the tireless mainstay of Foyer Espoir Pour les Enfants, known as Marie Jo, or "Mamie Jo", too. Madame Marie Jose Poux founded the FEPE orphanage in November 2009 and accepted more than 20 other children after the Earthquake of January 2010.
FEPE and Marie-Jo are supported by many each year.
Patrick Anderson runs the New York City Marathon with FEPE as his beneficiary.
You might also enjoy Luis Pena's documentary, Grace and Mercy about Marie-Jo, her brother Ben Constant, and their efforts with FEPE and in a tent-city of tens of thousands displaced in Port-au-Prince during 2010.
The student pictured in the poster for Grace and Mercy,
Jean Baptiste-Olivier, graduated from Ecole Foyer Espoir and earned his Degree as a Photographer. Olivier now directs FEPE in its new location in Northeast Haiti.
Marie-Jo was a student of Madame Franck Paul's in early 1960s' Port-au-Prince. Here both are with Mirielle Cherie,
a Director at College Canapé Vert, at the June 2018 graduation-ceremony for EFE and FEPE students.
Forward always!
Boundless Hopes
for Our Future
Photos by Olivier of younger FEPE students in their
new location.
Johnny Bonheur, Age 4, Ambition Firefighter.
Kensley Jammer Paul, Age 4, Ambition Musician
Chaia Laurent Bernael, Age 5, Ambition Dentist
Nico Scott, Age 5, Ambition Physician
Amarie Felicia Rose, Age 6, Ambition Seamstress
Roodley Lexis, Age 6, Ambition Computer Scientist
Fabien Scott, Age 6, Ambition Carpenter
SaraJean, Age 7, Ambition Nurse
Mia, daughter of Claudine Aimé, another Director at FEPE
The cost per year for each student at
FEPE (food, hygiene, lodging, school, medicines and uniforms) has tripled to $1800. Please DONATE to Marie-Jo's Hope for Haitian Children Foundation or through Sticking Up For Children.
Earlier Reports 2025
Ecole Foyer Espoir in the Delmas district of Port-au-Prince, January 2025.
Students in the Philosophie classes at College Canapé Vert in Port-au-Prince, February 2025
Please visit the 'Working the Heat' to see Olivier's individual portraits of all 26 Graduates,
Nine of SUFC's Partners in 2024.
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