LIBRARY UPDATE
Deschapelles Library March 2015
Great progress!! The cupola and the roof are on! Soon, children like this little girl will have a place to read and study.
“I gave a newspaper to little Fredna and I saw more kids than ever in the library yard– this will be life changing for them! A bientot-Anny” (ODES member)
OUR LATEST BENEFIT WAS A GREAT SUCCESS!!! Thank you to all you joined us October 5, to support our organization and the people of Dschapelles. Many thanks as well to William Pitt Sotheby’s, the Foxboro Foundation and Thompson & Peck for their early support!
SCI Innovation Award to Sister Cities Essex Haiti
SISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI RECIPIENT OF SCI 2014 INNOVATION AWARD!! Sister Cities International selected Sister Cities Essex Haiti as the recipient of their 2014 Innovation Award in Youth & Education for a population of less than 100,000!!! The award was given for SCEH’s Early Education Teacher Training Project. SCI established the Annual Awards Program in 1962 to bring international recognition to “exceptional sister city programs”. We are extremely grateful to have received this award. To learn more about the award, please click here. And to see a video about the Teacher Training Project, click here!
SISTER CITIES HAS A “HAITI SHELF” AT THE ESSEX LIBRARY 
Want to know more about Haiti? The Essex Library now has a “Haiti Shelf” by the front door. There are fiction and non-fiction books about the history, culture, and people of Haiti. Come check it out!
