My students are motivated, inspired, and generous youth who have found a specific purpose to support young Haitian learners. Our student body has dedicated its efforts to supporting the specific Haitian school community of Galette Chambon and its connected schools. Last year, we are sent our left-over school supplies to multiple remote schools in Haiti in order to provide for their learning needs. This school year, we hope to send them a multiple of new supplies they need for their schools; similar to those supplies we use in our classrooms every day but that they have no access to in their Haitian communities.
Our students are full of hope, empathy, and inspiration to reach students around the world and share with them the value of education. At the same time, the Haitian students share with use their desire to learn and the need for us to value the education we are provided here in the United States.
Our students help to sponsor a Haitian school in Gallette Chambon, Haiti as well as other schools associated with the Gallette Chambon area. By providing school supplies for these Haitian children, my students learn to support a larger learning community while re-affirming the importance of the education they themselves are working toward. My students have identified the most commonly used school supplies needed for daily school work. They will put together learning packages that will personally be delivered by our teachers who are traveling to Haiti in June. Supporting our Haitian students help will help reinforce to my students that even with very few educational supplies, education is the key to creating a better life. My students' efforts to support students in Haiti connect them with a world-wide learning community while teaching them empathy and compassion for those with little means.
In Their Own Words
Through this project, we are hoping to help students learn like we have in our schools in America. In Haiti, students have very little school supplies, but they still want to learn. Our teacher traveled to Haiti to meet some of the kids and teachers in Haiti and we have learned about their needs. Many students in our Haitian schools come to school having not eaten in days. Most schools in Haiti do not have the means to supply their students with meals, much less supply them with basic school supplies. This project would help supply basic school needs.Most students do not have paper or pencils, and they only have a chalkboard to learn from. We have items like highlighters, notebooks, paper, pens, pencils, erasers, scissors, and other supplies to help us learn better. Hopefully sending these supplies will help our adopted Haitian peers learn more so that they can improve their lives through education.
We hope to be leaders by showing others that education is important and can make a difference in not only one person's life but through an entire nation. Many students just need tools to learn. We can help provide these tools by sending them to the schools with our teachers who are visiting Haiti. Nobody can ever know who or where that person is who might change the world for the better. If never given the opportunity to learn, how would the world ever know the gifts young kids can give. We have the chance to give the Haitian students the tools they need to give their gifts of knowledge to the world. Sometimes leadership is just the chance to give others the power to speak their voice.
Our school has been supporting this Haitian community for two years now. Our teachers helped to teach some Haitian teachers how to teach last summer. We collected used supplies last year and sent what we could. Our teachers will go again this summer to teach and to deliver our supplies. One challenge we are solving is to give students some of the same supplies we use in our classrooms in order to learn. We will also help students in our school feel that they accomplished a goal that was once just a hope or dream. Having a kind thought without following through with action allows problems to simply continue as problems. We want to, and we are, being part of a solution to a problem (which is lack of educational resources for our student Haitian learners).
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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