EOAD UPDATE: Scholarship Kids Finish 1st Semester; Women’s Group-New Babies

During my trip this month to Haiti I visited the Eye of a Dream Children to see how they progressed after completing their first semester. Here are some photographs taken during the trip.

Talking about academic performance for the first trimester and reinforcing the power of education.Oh Oh !! Were did the smiles go?

Talking about academic performance for the first trimester and reinforcing the power of education.
Oh Oh !! Were did the smiles go?

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Solo performance

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Can’t wait to open the presents.

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I am going to enjoy my pretty doll, she said.

These healthy twins were born to one of the mothers in the women's group that I hosted via Skype.

These healthy twins were born to one of the mothers in the women’s group that I hosted via Skype.

I would video conference once a week in order to coach expectant mothers and midwives in the town of Croix des Bouquets. These are the first two children that were born in this women’s group, which I started in an attempt to provide medical guidance for this remote village.

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Baby David, 3 months old now.

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This is Mme Pierre, lay midwife on the right.
She conducted the women’s meeting with me on Skype.

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These girls love posing for the camera.

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First Semester Report card for one of the EOAD scholarship recepients.

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EOAD children gathered around some of the gift donated by the Dept of Social Work of Queens Hospital Center, Jamaica New York.

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Zafala, a grassroots organization for the rights of women in Port au Prince.
My new friends.

Presentation on Domestic and Sexual Violence to a class of nurses in Croix de Bouquets.

Presentation on Domestic and Sexual Violence to a class of nurses in Croix de Bouquets.

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Little girl who loves having her picture taken.

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L’ Ecole La Providence de St Francois D’Assises.
Kids marching back to class. Bummer!!

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Sister Martina at her community center where forty seven seniors and over eighty kids are fed.

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