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In February, 2023, eight tablets with 1,000 “open source” books downloaded in French, Spanish, Creole, and English were sent to Haiti. The tablets have a digital library app can be installed on iPads and Samsung tablets. Paul Wicks, an emeritus member and consultant, demonstrated the use of the Reading Room’s App to FEA members at a March 2023 meeting. Students in library with tablets. Ecole Agapé student with tablet. When the Library App is downloaded on tablet computers, an almost limitless number of “open source” books can be stored as a digital library. The books are in PDF format, organized […]

RAIN or SHINE – Event is still on for Saturday! We have tents to sit under – please come join us for great food & music!

Join Friends of Ecole Agape for the 4th Annual Wine Tasting in support of the Only Free Girls’s School in Haiti. June 25th, 2022 | 5-9pm St Philip Parish Center, 64 Pompey Hollow Rd (rte. 44), Ashford, CT

On August 2, 2020, Ecole Agape’s school construction began. Friends of Ecole Agape partnered with Haitian Turbo System SA and three other contributors to provide funds for a new classroom building and the repair of Myrtha Manigat’s house. Haitian Turbo System is an information system engineering company established by CEO Carl Darbouze (husband of Marie Michele Darbouze, one of the two school administrators). Original House Renovations At completion, the bottom floor of the original house holds 3 preschool classrooms, a 1st grade classroom, a 2nd grade classroom, a computer lab, a director’s office, a small working kitchen, and a bathroom […]

Welcome to 5th Annual Concert (pig-less) through on site live music by reservation and call Rikke (860-810-6656) OR livestreaming on 09/19 (2-6pm)! For livestreaming, please go to the website http://webvideostream.com/ OR you can scan the QR code with your cell phone on the flyer below! Thank you!

➡️ 4TH ANNUAL WINE TASTING TO BE RESCHEDULED❗️ Dear Friends, Out of an abundance of caution over the COVID-19, the Friends of Ecole Agape is rescheduling its April 18, 2020, 4th Annual Wine Tasting event at St. Philip Center. Because your health is important to us, we are following current protocol and endorse flattening the contagion curve by social distancing. We thank you for your continued support of our mission to provide the girls of Haiti with an education. Another announcement will be made when the new date for the Wine Tasting has been determined. Thank you for your patience and […]

WANTED: All Chili Lovers! If You Know Beans About Chili, Then Don’t Miss Your Chance To Vote Friends of Ecole Agape is wranglin’ up some chili-tasting fun for all you buckaroos at our second annual Chili Cook-Off. Come and grab some mouth-watering grub on February 29, 2020, from high noon to 3:00 p.m. at St. Philip Parish, 64 Pompey Hollow Rd., Ashford, CT, and help support Ecole Agape, the only free school for girls in Haiti. Our chili-cooking culprits are ready to put up their spoons and show us their bowls. They’re vying for first, second, and third prizes, and […]

What happens when pigs fly? Impossible things come true! What we take for granted as an equal opportunity is impossible for children in Haiti. The cost of public education in Haiti is unaffordable for many families. With your help, over 200 young girls receive a life-changing education at Ecole Agape, the only free school for girls in Haiti. This is an important fundraiser for Ecole Agape in Lilavois, Haiti. Your generous contribution as admission helps us to support the only free girls’ school in Haiti. For the fourth year in a row, we’ve set the stage for six hours of live […]