Robotics in the Library: August 2017
A group of students from Region 4 Valley Regional High School (Chester, Deep River, Essex) travelled to Deschapelles in the summer of 2017 with their parents to share their love of robotics. Entitled the “Deschapelles Robotics Initiative”, the group spent nearly a week in Deschapelles working with 15 children ages 8-14 on how to build […]
Book Buddies Update-May 2017
This year’s Zami Liv (Book Buddies) group met to read their books that they are sharing with students in Middletown, Connecticut. They first met on the lawn of the library but the rain came so they went inside. The librarian, Pleurette Mervil, led the discussion. The six girls and two boys read beautifully in French, and […]
Legos Project
The goals of the Lego Project are to encourage young people to “build a new Haiti” through the use of Legos. It encourages children to combine their imagination with problem solving skills. The children involved in Deschapelles are at least 10 years old and either attend school or, if they are unable, are members of […]
International Book Buddies Project
The International Book Buddy Project, proposed by a Middletown, Connecticut middle school teacher in the fall of 2013, is a new program that pairs “reluctant” readers and writers at a middle school in Middletown with similar aged children in Deschapelles Haiti. The overall concept is that children from each country read the same book in their […]
Cross Cultural Exchange: Update: Summer 2015
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 […]