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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.
Another Year Forward, 2024 into 2025
The Foyer Espoir Pour les Enfants
(FEPE--"Feh-Péy")
Orphanage in Delmas, Port-au-Prince
The Ecole Foyer Espoir
(EFE--Eh--"Féy")
School in Delmas, Port-au-Prince
Listen to an artist beloved by FEPE's founder, MARIE JO POUX: the actress,
composer and singer TOTO BISSANTE, and "Lamize pa dous".
At the very bottom of this Page honoring
FEPE and EFE from 2024 into 2025, you
can find another version of "Lamize Pa Dou"--
that by Lakou Mizik and Joseph Ray in 2021.
The 2021 video is "tree-mendous", too.
Haiti is the biggest Benign Secret in
the world.
F.E.P.E. and E.F.E. are the longest-lived Partners
of Sticking Up For Children in Haiti. Maryse Déjean
began to work with FEPE's founder Marie Jo Poux
directly after the Earthquake of January 12, 2010.
Her aunt, Marie-Marthe Balin Franck Paul, helped
Marie Jo initiate the EFE school so that FEPE's post-
Earthquake number of 33 orphans could be
productivly occupied and educated.
As SUFC writes in our 'Sustain Success' summary,
'There would be no' us 'without Marie Jo Poux.'
She's pictured below with her daugher, Maureen,
and the orphans/students outside FEPE's gates in
the Port-au-Prince district of Delmas in 2012
"Something You Got" InstrumentalDPRAM (Don Paul and Rivers Answer Moons
00:00 / 04:30
DPRAM would like to honor Staff and Students
of FEPE and EFE with the Instrumental Track
named "Something You Got". This Track might be
company for readers browing text and photos
and video.
In Februrary 2024
Staff and Students of the EFE School
and the FEPE Orphanage celebratred GRATITUDE
for 14 years of existence and progress.
They celebrated Teachers Graduating.
Students showed their talents.
Disruptions closed Schools in Port-au-Prince
often between March and September 2024. Haiti's
un-elected Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, resigned
on March 11, and formally resigned on April 25.
The United Nations-approved force of around
1000 Troops from Kenya arrived in Port-au-Prince
this past June. The Viva Aysanm alliance
of 14 neighborhood "gangs", across the city of
more than four million people, added Citte Soleil
to its grouping in July, according to the Armed
Conflicy Location and Event Data website. On November 25, Viv Aysanm spokespersons from 15 neighborhoods said in an audio-message that
"all Haitians and the diaspora" were welcome
"to enter the country as you wish [....] The
country is for the Haitian people. We tell all
Haitians that they are free in their nation."
Whatever the turmoil and closures surrounding
Schools, students of FEPE and EFE have kept
their own peace and continued to learn.
Photographer Jean Baptise Olivier videographed
FEPE students as they worked on puzzles one
September afternoon.
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As soon as they could--and at every opportunity--
Staff and Students resumed classes.
Below, last July, Classrooms at EFE salute the donations of JAMBARS from Jennifer Maxwell and
her teamat the Artisan Organic Energy-Bar
company. Marie Jo and her sister Nicole and other
family and friends had transported the JAMBARS.
The youngest students of FEPE are guided by a former
student whom you may remember as also a gifted
photographer, Jean Baptiste Olivier.
Olivier is featured in the documentary about FEPE and
Marie Jo Poux, 'Grace and Mercy' that director Luis Pena filmed in the year immediately after the Earthquake of January 2010.
By 2017 Olivier was helping with photo and video projects as a student at EFE.
His portraits and other photos of younger FEPE students can be seen below.
Olivier's story and that of the now six-year-old Amarie
is told in 'Care Makes Care' on this website in 2023.
Olivier was certfied as a Professional in Photography
last April.
He sent SUFC his list of most wanted tools. We'll work with prior suppliers to our Partners such as B & H Photo for the Camera, Laptop, Flash and Gimbal. The
concept is that Olivier will then teach--teach students
of FEPE and EFE and elsewhere skills that he's learned.
One thing we know for sure, following 11 years of seeing their work, is that Haitians CAN DO work of great difficulty, creativity, and sensitivity!
And here's the "Lamize Pa Du" ("Misery Is Not Sweet"}
version and video by Lakou Mizik and Joseph Ray, from 2021, that we promised toward top of this Page.
It is, in fact, sweet in both song and actions.
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