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Region 4 School District Initiative-Spring 2012

The schools of Chester, Deep River, Essex and Region 4 raised over $6,000 for the Sister Cities Essex Haiti Early Education Teacher Training project!

Pringles cans decorated and filled with school supplies by Deep River Elementary School students
Pringles cans decorated and filled with school supplies by Deep River Elementary School students.  Ready to be sent!

Essex Elementary School conducted a “Helping Hands for Haiti” initiative whereby students raised money by doing services for family, friends and neighbors and raised nearly $3,000.

Chester Elementary School held a Service Learning Project entitled, “From Our Village to Theirs – Helping to Rebuild the Schools in Deschapelles, Haiti” that raised nearly $500  for school supplies in Deschapelles.

Deep River Elementary School students decorated over 100 Pringles cans and filled them with school supplies for Deschapelles pre-school students.  They are held a “Tip a Teacher” benefit at Oliver’s Tavern in Essex in June 2012 and raised over $1,700. To see the children opening the Pringles cans, please click here.

Pringles cans being used in Deschapelles!! Thank-you, Deep River!
Pringles cans being used in Deschapelles!! Thank-you, Deep River!

John Winthrop Middle School and Valley Regional High School held a bake sale on May 12 and raised $552 to support the Early Education Teacher Training Project.  In addition, John Winthrop Middle School held a Talent Show in the Spring of 2012 that raised over $400 to buy books for Deschapelles children.  To learn more about these exciting initiatives, please click here.


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Haiti & Democracy: A Conversation with Best Selling Author, Laurent Dubois

If you missed Laurent Dubois’  lecture, “Haiti & Democracy,”  please click here.  (Lecture starts at minute 11:50)  As part of our 2021-2022 speaker series, Understanding Haiti, with author Laurent Dubois, to discuss the long-term history of the country, focusing on the complex political and cultural dynamics that have shaped the present.

This free presentation is a hybrid event sponsored by Sister Cities Essex Haiti and Southeast Connecticut World Affairs Council.

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