Haiti’s College Confraternite

Past Event ....... September 23rd, 2010 — 2:30 pm

Thursday, September 23, 2:30 pm. Mayor Laurent F. Gilbert, Sr.; local businessman Peter Geiger; and Pastor Dieuseul Estivene of Haiti’s Berean Baptist Church will collectively present a slide show of Gilbert & Geiger’s recent trip to Haiti with a focus on College Confraternite, a school that is in dire need of rebuilding.  Gilbert and Geiger went to Haiti in April as part of a group from South Lewiston Baptist Church.  This special program is free and open to the public.

Gilbert first learned of the school’s desperate condition through a meeting with Mayor Wilson Louis of Cite Soleil Section of Porta au Prince who visited Bates College, Lewiston, in February, shortly after the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti.  He and Geiger also met with him again in Haiti and visited the school located in the most poverty-stricken and particularly deteriorated section of the city. 
 
Prior to the earthquake, the school provided educational instruction to 350 students from 3 – 15 years of age; however, only 150 are currently attending due to parents fearing an additional earthquake and the school’s now frail condition. 
 

Posted: Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 in Lecture

Lewiston Library: Haiti’s College Confraternite

Thursday, September 23, 2:30 pm. Mayor Laurent F. Gilbert, Sr.; local businessman Peter Geiger; and Pastor Dieuseul Estivene of Haiti’s Berean Baptist Church will collectively present a slide show of Gilbert & Geiger’s recent trip to Haiti with a focus on College Confraternite, a … continues …