Support Sister Cities Essex Haiti This Holiday Season
Dear Friend, The current situation in Haiti is extremely challenging, with continued political instability, gang violence, and fuel shortages throughout the country. Thanks to generous supporters like you, Sister Cities Essex Haiti offers hope to the people of Deschapelles. Your donation helps provide lifelong learning and literacy skills, enabling them to participate and contribute to their community. While the […]
Sister Cities Essex Haiti Receives Grant from the Community Foundation of Middlesex County
Sister Cities Essex Haiti is delighted to report that we have received a grant from the Community Foundation of Middlesex County in the amount of $1500 for a Capacity Building and Strategic Planning project. SCEH has been very successful in responding to requests by the community of Deschapelles, Haiti including the construction of a 3000 […]
SCEH Selected For Essex Savings Bank 2022 Investment Program
Get Out and Vote! Donations are our lifeblood and Essex Savings Bank gives thousands of dollars to help aid our efforts. Essex Savings Bank will be collecting votes throughout the month of February. At the end of this period, the votes are tallied and translate into a percentage of the total amount of allocated funds. […]
Haiti & Democracy: A Conversation with Author Laurent Dubois
On Tuesday, September 14, 2021, as part of our 2021-2022 speaker series, Understanding Haiti, author Laurent Dubois, discussed the long-term history of the country in a lecture entitled “Haiti & Democracy”, focusing on the complex political and cultural dynamics that have shaped the present at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme. If you missed the lecture, […]
Welcome to SISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI!
MUSIC PROJECT UPDATE Who would have dreamed that the first efforts of Sister Cities Essex Haiti’s music project in 2012 would result in the first-ever performance in Deschapelles of a classical chamber concert with six musicians from the Ecole de Musique from Ste. Trinite in Port au Prince? To learn more, click here. CROSS CULTURAL […]