Sister Cities Essex Haiti

Educational and Cultural Collaborations in Deschapelles
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Home
  • Who we are
    • Background
    • Mission
    • Board of Directors
    • ODES
  • What we do
    • Collaborate
    • Projects in Haiti
      • Library
      • Education
      • Music
      • Athletics
      • Future Projects
    • Initiatives in Connecticut
  • Why Haiti?
    • Why Deschapelles?
  • Stories
  • Galleries
    • Library
    • Music
    • Education
    • Athletics
    • Deschapelles
    • Supporters
  • FAQ
  • Contact
    • How can I help?
  • Donate
You are here: Home / Education / Cross Cultural Exchange / Cross Cultural Exchange: Update: Summer 2015

Cross Cultural Exchange: Update: Summer 2015

SCEH President Dan Taylor-Stypa sharing videos made by EES students

What is life like for children in Essex CT? And what is life like for children in Deschapelles Haiti? How can children learn from each other about their similarities and differences?

It was important to have given the directors of the schools the experience in using the tablets to video.  They understood the purpose of the exchange  and in learning about it had fun themselves.

Building on their “learning” about each other, the Essex students were successful in their ability to adapt to ways of conveying information about their school with a minimum of words.  Their videos of activities were shared with the schools in Haiti.  The two photographers helped the first school devise a plan of how to respond.  They followed the guide of what one puts in a back pack, a geometry lesson exercise done on a blackboard, one child speaking about himself and school and then recess or as they call it “recreation”   The children, both in Essex and Deschapelles learned that it was important to enunciate and project their voices.  The video link below, was created by Andrew Snyder, using selected clips of the different activities from both exchanges. The growth in understanding of both groups on how to better convey information is quite evident.  The ODES facilitators for the project did not ask for the most talented children to do the videos (which is often what happens in Haiti) but rather asked for volunteers for the different tasks.

It takes more time than one might think to make this actually happen: carrying tablets with videos in travelers’ luggage; sharing with the different classes; recording in the ambient noise atmosphere of schools in Haiti;  and then returning the new videos from Haiti back to Essex.  But it was well worth the effort as the children in Haiti and Essex now know a bit more about their simllarities and differences in their school lives, and they became creative in adapting to a format that was more successful.  In the fall of 2015 the 6th graders in Essex and Deschapelles will share information about different foods that are locally available and how they are purchased.

Tagged With: Cross Cultural Exchange


Watch a film about the library.

Join our Mailing List:

To get the latest on all that is
happening in Deschapelles
with our projects,

Join our Mailing List

Please consider a Donation:

Please consider a Donation:
100% of all money raised goes
to support our work with the
people of Deschapelles.

Make a Donation

Support Sister Cities Essex Haiti Inc. while shopping:

Amazon donates when you
shop at smile.amazon.com.
Just select SCEH when you:

Go to smile.amazon.com

Search

Besly Belizaire, our SCEH Library Administrator

Meet Our Storytellers. Read Their Stories. Get Involved.

Besly Belizaire: Rising Up to be a Leader in His Community: 2020

Back in March of 2020, when the world first learned about Covid-19, one of the things we heard over and over again was “wash your hands.” For those of us in the States, that is a fairly simple task; we have running water at our sinks, and we can purchase soap with a simple trip to the grocery store. For our friends in Deschapelles, Haiti, that is a luxury that not many have. Read more…

Sister Cities Essex Haiti
P.O. Box 26
Essex CT 06426
info@sistercitesessexhaiti.org

  • Home
  • Who we are
  • What we do
  • Why Haiti?
  • Stories
  • Galleries
  • FAQ
  • Donate
  • Contact

© 2017  · Sister Cities Essex Haiti