Dear Friends of MCLC,
I have just returned to Haiti. Neighbors have been saying how much they appreciated MCLC donors’ support in the months that followed the hurricanes. MCLC opened its kitchen and served anyone who showed up for the daily meal. “I was surprised to see some of the people who showed up,” said Co-Director Abner Sauveur. “People were really in need. People were running around with their belongings under their arms because they had no homes.”
Here are two of the 11 homes MCLC has rebuilt. We are still seeking funds to repair 25 homes @ 500 US each.
Representatives from the Fayerweather Street School in Cambridge (Headmaster Ed Kuh, Connie Biewald, Dorla White Simpson, Meg Bruton, Kate Hubble, Lauren Mueller, and alum Sam Slavin who is now working on the border of Haiti and the Dominican republic, as well as Tina Jaillet from the Atrium School and Lesely student Owen Thomas) visited for one week to build on our school relationships. Equipped with 24-hour translators, the group did demonstration lessons in math and science and spent a lot of time talking with our community members. They came down with bilingual Creole and English books made by their first and second grade classrooms as an official kick off of our Mother Tongues Books project. They felt our school garden was extraordinary. They plan to start a Fayerweather School garden. Just last week we pulled up 4 yams, the smallest weighed 22 pounds and the biggest one weighed in at 29 pounds!
Thank you so much for your gifts, which make this work possible.
Sincerely,
Chris Low, Co-Director
