KICKING OFF 2025 BEAUTIFULLY | stickingup4children2

February 16, 2025

With our Partners in Haiti, the story endures.

They PERSEVERE. And they GROW.

The two Schools in Port-au-Prince, College Canapé Vert and Ecole Foyer Espoir (EFE) and the Orphanage there, Foyer Espoir Pour les Enfants (FEPE) maintain their purpose. Students, Teachers, Administrators keep going to School. They do so between Blockades of Manifestations in the ongoing civil strife of Port-au-Prince. Guns keep firing there, and “stray” bullets flying, but the Students, Teachers and Administrators still walk to their Schools and keep up their Classes.

Enrollments have re-grown to 491 at College Canapé Vert this past Friday, February 14, and to over 200 at EFE. All 31 students boarding at the FEPE orphanage study—and play—EVERY day, guided by former FEPE students.

In Cayes Jacmel the adult-literacy Class of Lèkol Toupatou (Haitian Kréyol for School Everywhere) meets at least twice a week. Women walk as many as three miles each way to the improvised School that Marie Yolene Desiral heads. They advance in Lessons from the Mon Livre Unique textbook and from Videos, each around one half-hour long, in Lèkol Toupatou’s series of 148 such videos. Ladies of the Cayes Jacmel School this past month began a new business, the Lekol Toupatou Cleaning Products. They mixed and bottled supplies to work with homes and businesses along their part of Haiti’s southern Coast.

Both the Mon Livre Unique textbook and the Lèkol Toupatou videos are the years-long brainchilds of Madame Marie Marthe Balin Franck Paul, now 88, my wife Maryse’s aunt and a School-Teacher since she was 17.

Claude Bernard Serant’s and his team’s fine documentary about Mme. Franck Paul, Une Exceptionale Educator, will premiere in Port-au-Prince early this year.

Perhaps the greatest news we have for 2025 is that the first six Modules of Lekol Toupatou, a TOTAL of 45 half-hours in Lessons, will air across Haiti via YouTube.

Thus, every Haitian who’s now ‘illiterate’ will have access to empower himself or herself through learning to read and write. Such access fulfills the lifelong dream of Madame Marie Marthe Balin Franck Paul.

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Learning together at EFE.'

A gathering of 18 at EFE.

A Snack with Mango-Juice at CCV.

Teacher and students warm up.

January 3, 2025, Mme. Franck Paul
receives her Award as one of 50
model Women in Haiti.

Mme. Marie Jo Poux and Jean Claude Louis Pierre of FEPE and the Hope for Haitian Children Foundation with a violin for students
from our mutual Partner Hungry for Music.

#1 of three artful, astonishing
and beautiful photographs by
Jean Baptiste Olivier of Amarie Rose, now six years old, a student adoped into FEPE by Marie Jo
in September 2020. Olivier was himself an orphan in FEPE and
a student in EFE. The photos from
Olivier came to SUFC in early February 2025.

#2

#3

Another magnificent photo by Olivier.

Now you may see How and Why every effort
meant to help the free and most complete development of children served by our Partners, and all children across Haiti, and all children 'round the world, is infinitely worthwhile.

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universal literacy for haiti

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and Partners' Power of Good

Lèkol Toupatou! (School Everywhere!)
for Universal Literacy in Haiti.

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Madame Franck Paul with
her 243-page textbook, Mon Livre Unique.

Adult literacy in
Cayes Jacmel

Learning together at EFE.'

A gathering of 18 at EFE.

A Snack with Mango-Juice at CCV.

Teacher and students warm up.

January 3, 2025, Mme. Franck Paul
receives her Award as one of 50
model Women in Haiti.

Mme. Marie Jo Poux and Jean Claude Louis Pierre of FEPE and the Hope for Haitian Children Foundation with a violin for students
from our mutual Partner Hungry for Music.

#1 of three artful, astonishing
and beautiful photographs by
Jean Baptiste Olivier of Amarie Rose, now six years old, a student adoped into FEPE by Marie Jo
in September 2020. Olivier was himself an orphan in FEPE and
a student in EFE. The photos from
Olivier came to SUFC in early February 2025.

#2

#3

Another magnificent photo by Olivier.

Now you may see How and Why every effort
meant to help the free and most complete development of children served by our Partners, and all children across Haiti, and all children 'round the world, is infinitely worthwhile.

Learning together at EFE.'

A gathering of 18 at EFE.

A Snack with Mango-Juice at CCV.

Teacher and students warm up.

January 3, 2025, Mme. Franck Paul receives her Award as one of 50 model Women in Haiti.

Mme. Marie Jo Poux and Jean Claude Louis Pierre of FEPE and the Hope for Haitian Children Foundation with a violin for students from our mutual Partner Hungry for Music.

#1 of three artful, astonishing and beautiful photographs by Jean Baptiste Olivier of Amarie Rose, now six years old, a student adoped into FEPE by Marie Jo in September 2020. Olivier was himself an orphan in FEPE and a student in EFE. The photos from Olivier came to SUFC in early February 2025.

#2

#3

Another magnificent photo by Olivier.

Now you may see How and Why every effort meant to help the free and most complete development of children served by our Partners, and all children across Haiti, and all children 'round the world, is infinitely worthwhile.

January 3, 2025, Mme. Franck Paul
receives her Award as one of 50
model Women in Haiti.

Mme. Marie Jo Poux and Jean Claude Louis Pierre of FEPE and the Hope for Haitian Children Foundation with a violin for students
from our mutual Partner Hungry for Music.

#1 of three artful, astonishing
and beautiful photographs by
Jean Baptiste Olivier of Amarie Rose, now six years old, a student adoped into FEPE by Marie Jo
in September 2020. Olivier was himself an orphan in FEPE and
a student in EFE. The photos from
Olivier came to SUFC in early February 2025.

Now you may see How and Why every effort
meant to help the free and most complete development of children served by our Partners, and all children across Haiti, and all children 'round the world, is infinitely worthwhile.