Category: events

The administrators to Ecole Agape carried all twelve donated laptops in their suitcases to Haiti. Chantal and Marie Michele, the nieces to Myrtha, the school’s founder, had very heavy bags when we left them at the train station in New Haven, on their way to New York. They also had the beginnings of a media center for the school, including a laptop speaker and projector to aid in teaching the 200 girls. Teacher training has begun and judging by the teacher’s expressions, they’re feeling happy as well as challenged! We wish them success as they endeavor to learn a new technology. […]

Many new angels earned their wings at the 2nd Annual Wine Tasting on April 7 at the St. Philip parish center in Ashford. Nearly 300 people contributed over $13,000 in free will offerings to benefit the only free girls’ school in Haiti. Ecole Agape (School of Love) is a primary school serving 200 students grades one through six in Lilavois, a town outside of Port-au-Prince. Donations fund teacher salaries, school supplies, a new library, and a nutritional school meal program. In addition, some wine tasting participants personally donated fifteen laptops, solar lights, and a mobile media center. To donate to […]

Behind the scenes at Friends of Ecole Agape there’s a group of hard-working volunteers who build storage shelters and drive tractors. Many tractor trips and hundreds of tie-wraps later, a shelter stands at the far end of Rikke Wassenberg’s property serving as storage for a set of tables and chairs purchased from St. Jude’s church in Willington, ready to go for the next fundraising event for Ecole Agape, the only free all-girls’ school in Haiti. Ted Hill and the newest members, Margaret Judy (aka “Maggie”) and Peter Kirk, also helped set up the structure, which involved the creative use of tarps […]

Pizza Night to benefit Ecole Agape at Blaze Pizza, downtown Storrs! Friends of Ecole Agape will receive 20% of your purchase. Join us Thursday, June 29, anytime between 5-8 PM. Bring a copy of the flyer shown below, in print or on your cell phone, show it to the cashier before being rung up, and enjoy your pizza! Tuesday Saints will be playing on the Storrs Green from 6:30 to 8:00 PM. Come and enjoy live music and friendship.

Gina Jeanty’s Testimony I am a former student of Ecole Agape and I am one of the many children Myrtha Manigat used to help a lot, and really a lot. She gave us a very good education, raised us and feed us well in her own house. I used to live in a very poor area. I did not have access to school. I did not have access to food either which is a necessity especially for a child and any human being. Myrtha Manigat, or Manmie as we used to call her, offered me a home, a free school […]