Flag Day in Matènwa Tells a Different Truth
So much of what the world hears about Haiti is only crisis. But on Flag Day Matènwa students celebrated how Haiti’s ancestry instills courage, dignity, pride, and joy.
Flag Day in Matènwa Tells a Different Truth
So much of what the world hears about Haiti is only crisis. But on Flag Day Matènwa students celebrated how Haiti’s ancestry instills courage, dignity, pride, and joy.
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Matènwa Celebrates May Day
This May Day, Matènwa students celebrated the dignity of work and the critical role that agriculture and the environment play in our lives.
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What Belonging Looks Like in Matènwa
During my time in Matènwa, what stayed with me most is the way no one is treated as an other.
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Meet Janose: Fierce mother, excellent cook, unforgettable host!
If you’ve been to Matènwa and stayed with Janose Remedor, you would agree that she is an unforgettable host. On any regular day, Janose can be found cooking on the wood fire outside of her house, taking walks to her friends’ homes with her devoted dog, Chana, trailing…
Meet Dieudony Jeanphilippe!
Dieudony Jeanphilippe is one of MCLC’s 2018 graduates, having passed the 13th grade national exam in June. While speaking with Dieudony, his love for MCLC was evident. Up until the end of 6th grade, he attended his father’s primary school, which is just down the road…
Story Time!
During my visit to the Matènwa Community Learning Center (MCLC), I observed Story Time with the 2nd graders! I had never seen anything like it. The students gathered around the carpeted area of the library by making themselves comfortable on benches and settled in for…
Meet Fania Bijoux, MCLC’s Valedictorian!
Fania Bijoux is one of the 10 students in MCLC’s 2018 graduating class that just passed the national (Philo) exam! In fact, she earned the classes’ highest score! Fania graduated at the top of her class, and has been offered a scholarship to study at Quisqueya in…
Bayo! Showing you the Real Haiti!
Our Own Strong G sings in BAYO I feel so proud of Strong G. He was just a teenager when volunteer Owen Thomas showed him how to use Garage Band on one of our new Apple computers that was part of our new Rotary International funded library. He started producing his own…
New Board Books!
Our mission to increase the number of Creole/English bilingual Mother Tongue Books has expanded into the world of board books for our youngest students! We partnered with Star Bright Books, a small publisher of bilingual board books, to translate 5 more of their books…
Hello Friends!
Hello Friends of Matenwa, My name is Krystel Pierre and I am the new administrator. I started at the beginning of March and it has been a blast and a challenge for me to get to know the people of the community, the school and the students. The people are very…
Do you have access to water?
For World Water Day, MCLC is trying to give more access water to as many families as possible. In Lagonav, a person uses an average of 2.5 gallons of water per day. Our main source of drinking water is a twenty-minute walk from the school. The school has some built in…
Celebrating The Global Day of Action!
See how Matènwa Students are working on the 2030 Sustainable D
Dance konsa! /Dance Like This!
Making a BEAT!
Behind the scenes. See how Beat Making Lab brought a team of talent, including and Michel Brun, to Matènwa to make music with some of the Matènwa high schoolers and our in house rapper Strong G. They created the music video Danse Konsa.
May 2017 Update
Friends of Matènwa, We’d like to fill you in on what we’ve been up to! Fly High! Thanks to Beyond Borders, the girls at the Matènwa Community Learning Center are flying kites. Each spring season, the skies of Haiti are full of bright, twirling creations but they are…