universal literacy for haiti

universal literacy for haiti

Helping Young People Create New Worlds

Mon livre unique de tere Annee by M.M. F

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Herlin, Germaine, Maryse, photo by Don P

School Everywhere! (Lèkòl Toupatou! in Haitian Kréyol) has recorded 592 Hours of Lessons for first-year students in Haiti. Artists outside Haiti have contributed Tracks to help with the learning.

The source for Lèkol

Toupatou! is Madame

Franck Paul's 243-page

text book in four languages, Mon LIvre Unique.

Students at the Ecole Foyer Espoir school in Port-au-Prince with their Principal, Jonathand Saintiné.

Students from the Foyer Espoir Pour les Enfants orphanage with their instruments in the house of FEPE's founder, Marie-Jo Poux.

Herlin Riley, Germaine Bazzle, and Maryse Philippe Déjean at ceremony for New Orleans City Council's declaring Germaine Bazzle Day. SUFC helped along this
recognition of the great singer and musician, Ms. Germaine.

SUFC REVIEW 2021

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aid to southern haiti

aid to southern haiti

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Artists and further support

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great people at the center

allies & projects

lekol toupatou! (school everywhere!)

universal literacy for haiti

Three Haitain metal artists, SERGE JOLIMEAU, RONY JACQUES, and JACQUES EUGENE, contributed pieces to a show at the upstairs Evolve art-space of the Angela King Gallery

in New Orleans French Quarter during the 2019 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

The artists chose to have sales of their pieces benefit students at the Foyer Espoir Pour les Enfants (FEPE) orphanage and the Ecole Foyer Espoir school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. All three artists are longtime friends of FEPE's founder, Madame Marie-Jose ("Marie-Jo") Poux, Haitian herself and a former Hospice Nurse in Cincinnatti, Ohio.

Seven of the artists' pieces sold through Sticking Up For Children at Evolve. Others sold at JazzFest's Cultural Exchange Pavillion, including three bought by the Festival's Director, Quint Davis.

Thank you, all, for your support. Please enjoy photos of the art below by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee. You can also link to artists at the 'JazzFest Eve' opening athe Angela King Gallery, sculptor Woodrow Nash and painters Patterson & Barnes

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The Band Is Here and the Spirits Too--sculptures by Jacques Eugene.

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RaRa Band by Serge Jolimeau, the patriarch of Haitian metal sculpture.

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Lambi by Rony Jacques (SOLD).

All of the Haitian metal artists' sculptures are crafted from 55-gallon oil-drums and other found objects in Port-au-Prince.

Please join us at Evolve on Wednesday evening, 5:00 to 7:00, and meet Jacques Eugene. He's a guest of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Downstairs during the same 5:00 to 700 window on April 24 is a companion Opening in the Angela King Gallery. It presents new work by Patterson & Barnes, painters of American music icons, and of new work by Woodrow Nash, the sculptor from Akron, Ohio . Nash's monumental figures follow in a line from Benin to Rodin to Henry Moore. The three artists of the Gallery's 'Jazz Fest Eve' Opening will be present, too. The Freddie Lonzo Jazz Ensemble will play.