We would like to say congratulations for your success! Keep up the good work.
Vicki’s Vision is guided by some basic, yet demanding principles. I do not give time, energy, assistance or money blindly to those who ask. Rather, I attempt to instill a sense of pride, personal growth, creativity and ownership in the students who express a committed interest in making their lives better. I measure success by how my investments have changed a single individual and by extension their family. It is my sincere hope that my efforts outlast and preserver far beyond my mortal life.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
Great things are happening in Haiti
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| Children are learning English and new life skills. |
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| Benjili is a great example for his little sister. Needless to say, is mom and dad are proud of his English skills. |
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| Elie (solid blue shirt) is the oldest in his family and his little brother and sister can't wait until they speak English "just like Elie" |
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| Learning about goat husbandry and the proper care of animals is an important skill in Haiti. The students are always surprised to find out I have goats at my farm in Illinois. |
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| The classroom is always full! On this day, class was much easier because it wasn't on Skype. |
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| Young women becoming leaders is an important part of breaking that glass ceiling. Mary Joe is a great role model for all the young women in Haiti. |
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| Young girls learning English! |
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| That's right Blaise, fix-it-yourself! You have the determination and now you have new skills. |
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| Jhonny loves his English book and it was his English skills that played a critical role when the Rotary picked him to join the Bio-Medical Technician class in Pignon. |
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| Josias is always ready with backpack in tow. He loves translating for the U.S.S. Comfort! |
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| Elie and Bullet. Before Elie met Bullet, he was afraid of dogs! |
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| Juratie is our biggest supporter. No matter what we need, she comes to our rescue! |
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| This is what happens when you attend English class... you learn to speak English and get a diploma. |
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| Patricia is another young woman that is a great role model. She speaks four languages now! |
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| Mr. Felix or is it Mr. Wisken ? <big smile> It was Felix that taught me in Haiti that everyone puts their last name first! I still laugh about learning I was calling him the wrong name for three months! |
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| Dieuve is our oldest student and we always knew he'd "grow-up" to be a teacher. Great job Dieuve! |
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| Ta-da! No need for sad faces when your future looks so bright! |
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| The bright stars of Haiti! |
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| Jhonny pointing at me because he believes his mother who died in the earthquake sent me to be his new mother... and I am! |
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| No chairs? Take a seat on the ground. No blackboard? Write with a rock. If you want something bad enough it doesn't matter to what extent you must go. Keep moving towards the goal... you'll get there. |
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Jivenson's message from the Bio-Med Tech classroom
Written by Jivenson Joseph one of the students who learned English with Vicki
Friday afternoon at about 4 PM after getting together Mackenzy, Elie and Johnny and I at Delmas 31( at Mackenzy’s) for the last meeting to go to Pignon on Saturday (September 8, 2012).
We planed to meet on the bus station early at 8:30 in order to leave at 9 o’clock. In the morning, Mackenzy called me to tell me that his friend came from Pignon told him that buses leave the station at 7:00, so we have schedule our departure for earlier. Saturday morning I woked up at 4:00, I took time to pack, I was gearing myself up for leaving home at 6:30, then I was done really. At 6:30 when I left home I sent a text message to them to let them know that I left home. My little brother named Smith helped to carry my bags to Delmas 3 in order at take a tap tap to take me KAFOUR AVIYASYON which cost 1 Haitian dollar. Since I didn’t know the station to Pignon, which is next to kafou aviyasyon, I asked someone and he said to me: cross the street and the corner of the next block is the station to Pignon. After getting the station, I texted them to let them know. Ten minutes after I didn’t see them I got in a four-tire little bus. I took a place close to the window on the left side and saved three other places with my bags for the guys. The bus was filled so Mackenzy, Eli and Johnny still didn’t appear The driver told me to call the guys since it was the time to leave the station, by the way, texting them on their cell was not necessary, I should have to call them right away.
Well, I say hey! to a seller of pappadap so as to refleat my account for two Haitian dollars because I didn’t have credit on my cell phone, when he saw that it was a five dollar bill , he said : I have no small change ,for that I bought for five dollars. After that I tried to call them one at a time, I couldn’t reach any cause they were in traffic couldn’t hear the phone.
Seeing that I couldn’t get them to know if they were near of far, then I got off the bus.
After a while, Mackenzy called me, I picked up and said: where you are? In the station, said Mackenzy. This is where I’m, I replied. He said near the pump, the gas station. Once I was told that, I could hear him on the phone and behind me too and I could see Eli, Mackenzy and Johnny. Now we were all four together at the bus station to Pignon and 8:00 was the time,
Johnny and Mackenzy, near by the station, went for breakfast since they didn’t take it at home. They let Jivenson i.e. me and Eli to keep an eye out on the bags. At this time Eli and I took a bus and saved two places for them.
Eli had fried banana prepared by his mother. Me I bought a sandwich for five dollars. A few minutes before they were back, the bus was about to fully filled.
When they were back, we were all four together on the bus. We bought different drinks like: robusto and toro, they are all energy drinks.
At 8:38, the bus left the station. Me personally, I ignored the exact time we got to Hinche because Eli felt sick.
I have to tell you that there are three different ways to go to Pignon, either you take plane to get there directly or you take bus from port-au-prince to cap-Haitian and from cap-Haitian, a tap tap to pignon. Or you take bus from port-au-prince to Hinche and from Hinche you take a moto to pignon. It was the last one we have chosen cause by passing by Hinche and costs much less than the others.
Some days before, we went , we called Rachel for directions and she told us that once we arrived at Hinche take a moto and tell the taxi driver to take us to l’hopital bien faisance de Pignon, and don’t worry because we will be welcome.
Well, at 11:40 we arrived at l’hopital bien faisance de Pignon (-------------)
We talked to a security agent we saw in the yard and he told us: wait a minute. After a while, two girls came to us and said: follow us. And we did. When we reached the floor, by passing close to the kitchen we could see a pile of plantain, and all sort of legume which can make good food in the Haitian cookery.
The ladies invited us to see the dormitory to choose the room. In the room , we could notice three beds in a room equipped with a nice mirror , a desk with three drawers, a big ceiling fan , on each bed, there was a soft pillow and a bath-towel , we didn’t even us those we had brought.
To me I thought when I arrived at Pignon; I was going to see Rachel. Behold, I called her to tell her that we arrived, a big surprise .I’m not in Pignon, don’t you see anyone to welcome you? Said Rachel. I said don’t worry somebody did it already.
At about 1:00, the ladies who have received us, called us to have lunch and that was when I noticed that the ladies were the cooks.
I have to tell you that I heard about Rotary before but I never knew that Rotary was so powerful to such an extent that we were given the program for free during such a long period of time and provided us everything besides very good food every day during the sessions; we had breakfast at time, juice, coffee and sandwich in the break, lunch and supper every day. Power and water is provided twenty for seven.
The bathroom equipped with hot and cold water, mirror and sinks, that’s unusual in HAITI and not accessible for most of the households, all most every student had the same comment
So let me seize the occasion to relate you an anecdote:
In my first session, I had a little cyst that appeared between my cheek and my neck some day before I moved to Pignon, when I arrived there, it begun to hurt me a lot and the part was swollen. And the student advised to not hold that cheap because that can worsen if it lasts so long, but what I intended to do was so: wait when I came back to port-au-prince to see a doctor. Suddenly, an idea came on my mind to report that to someone in the Hopital bien faisance de Pignon. So Mr. Evenel the interpreter in bio med class was the person to whom in the hospital I have reported that first and he gave me the direction for a check up. After that I could meet Dc Dominique, a surgeon. When I say that I a student of bio medical repair training in the program of rotary in the hospital and I’m from port-au-prince, he gave me a prescription to buy equipments such as: Bistoury, surgery gloves etc. I went straight up the nursing and the equipments were provided, the operation was done for free. To put it bluntly, this kindness to me won’t never fade from my memory.
Guess what! The only problem that we had was so: they didn’t give us even a second to be hungry
So that’s perfect for, thumbs up for rotary Houston.
We have a Billy the very good teacher and he really knows what his doing, the class room is so nice we use the devices of the hospital to make practice when some are broken they brought them in class and we repaired them,
Thanks to rotary, because devices we could only see in operating room become common for me like anesthesia machine, steam sterilizer, oxygen concentrator and so on. Not only see those, but we took them apart and fixed them.
At least. I have no word to express good statement to you rotary for your kindness to HAITI my darling country that I love so much,
Keep up the good word my God bless you all the members in the name of Jesus.
Jivenson JOSEPH
Friday afternoon at about 4 PM after getting together Mackenzy, Elie and Johnny and I at Delmas 31( at Mackenzy’s) for the last meeting to go to Pignon on Saturday (September 8, 2012).
Well, I say hey! to a seller of pappadap so as to refleat my account for two Haitian dollars because I didn’t have credit on my cell phone, when he saw that it was a five dollar bill , he said : I have no small change ,for that I bought for five dollars. After that I tried to call them one at a time, I couldn’t reach any cause they were in traffic couldn’t hear the phone.
Seeing that I couldn’t get them to know if they were near of far, then I got off the bus.
After a while, Mackenzy called me, I picked up and said: where you are? In the station, said Mackenzy. This is where I’m, I replied. He said near the pump, the gas station. Once I was told that, I could hear him on the phone and behind me too and I could see Eli, Mackenzy and Johnny. Now we were all four together at the bus station to Pignon and 8:00 was the time,
Johnny and Mackenzy, near by the station, went for breakfast since they didn’t take it at home. They let Jivenson i.e. me and Eli to keep an eye out on the bags. At this time Eli and I took a bus and saved two places for them.
Eli had fried banana prepared by his mother. Me I bought a sandwich for five dollars. A few minutes before they were back, the bus was about to fully filled.
When they were back, we were all four together on the bus. We bought different drinks like: robusto and toro, they are all energy drinks.
At 8:38, the bus left the station. Me personally, I ignored the exact time we got to Hinche because Eli felt sick.
I have to tell you that there are three different ways to go to Pignon, either you take plane to get there directly or you take bus from port-au-prince to cap-Haitian and from cap-Haitian, a tap tap to pignon. Or you take bus from port-au-prince to Hinche and from Hinche you take a moto to pignon. It was the last one we have chosen cause by passing by Hinche and costs much less than the others.
Some days before, we went , we called Rachel for directions and she told us that once we arrived at Hinche take a moto and tell the taxi driver to take us to l’hopital bien faisance de Pignon, and don’t worry because we will be welcome.
Well, at 11:40 we arrived at l’hopital bien faisance de Pignon (-------------)
We talked to a security agent we saw in the yard and he told us: wait a minute. After a while, two girls came to us and said: follow us. And we did. When we reached the floor, by passing close to the kitchen we could see a pile of plantain, and all sort of legume which can make good food in the Haitian cookery.
The ladies invited us to see the dormitory to choose the room. In the room , we could notice three beds in a room equipped with a nice mirror , a desk with three drawers, a big ceiling fan , on each bed, there was a soft pillow and a bath-towel , we didn’t even us those we had brought.
To me I thought when I arrived at Pignon; I was going to see Rachel. Behold, I called her to tell her that we arrived, a big surprise .I’m not in Pignon, don’t you see anyone to welcome you? Said Rachel. I said don’t worry somebody did it already.
At about 1:00, the ladies who have received us, called us to have lunch and that was when I noticed that the ladies were the cooks.
I have to tell you that I heard about Rotary before but I never knew that Rotary was so powerful to such an extent that we were given the program for free during such a long period of time and provided us everything besides very good food every day during the sessions; we had breakfast at time, juice, coffee and sandwich in the break, lunch and supper every day. Power and water is provided twenty for seven.
The bathroom equipped with hot and cold water, mirror and sinks, that’s unusual in HAITI and not accessible for most of the households, all most every student had the same comment
So let me seize the occasion to relate you an anecdote:
In my first session, I had a little cyst that appeared between my cheek and my neck some day before I moved to Pignon, when I arrived there, it begun to hurt me a lot and the part was swollen. And the student advised to not hold that cheap because that can worsen if it lasts so long, but what I intended to do was so: wait when I came back to port-au-prince to see a doctor. Suddenly, an idea came on my mind to report that to someone in the Hopital bien faisance de Pignon. So Mr. Evenel the interpreter in bio med class was the person to whom in the hospital I have reported that first and he gave me the direction for a check up. After that I could meet Dc Dominique, a surgeon. When I say that I a student of bio medical repair training in the program of rotary in the hospital and I’m from port-au-prince, he gave me a prescription to buy equipments such as: Bistoury, surgery gloves etc. I went straight up the nursing and the equipments were provided, the operation was done for free. To put it bluntly, this kindness to me won’t never fade from my memory.
Guess what! The only problem that we had was so: they didn’t give us even a second to be hungry
So that’s perfect for, thumbs up for rotary Houston.
We have a Billy the very good teacher and he really knows what his doing, the class room is so nice we use the devices of the hospital to make practice when some are broken they brought them in class and we repaired them,
Thanks to rotary, because devices we could only see in operating room become common for me like anesthesia machine, steam sterilizer, oxygen concentrator and so on. Not only see those, but we took them apart and fixed them.
At least. I have no word to express good statement to you rotary for your kindness to HAITI my darling country that I love so much,
Keep up the good word my God bless you all the members in the name of Jesus.
Jivenson JOSEPH
Monday, November 19, 2012
International Relations
Among the Future Leaders of Haiti we have Ernest. Ernest has a degree in International Relations. If you are looking for a man who is ready to provide services to your company in international relations. Call Ernest.
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GEDEUS Ernest
Adresse : # 12, Delmas 31
Rue Maguana
Tel. 3-8243427/ 3-6585166
E-mail : ernestgedeus@yahoo.fr
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GEDEUS Ernest diplômé en Diplomatie et Relations Internationales
•Célibataire, Né à l’Anse -à- Foleur le 26 janv. 1983
•Adresse : #12, Delmas 31, rue Maguana
•Nif : 009-977-802-0
•Tel : 3824-3427/36585166
OBJECTIF DE CARRIERE
•Souhaite travailler dans un environnement dynamique qui offre des possibilités d’avancement en fonction des performances
EDUCATION
Etudes Universitaires
Université Américaine Des Sciences Modernes d’Haïti (UNASMOH) 2007-2011
Option : Diplomatie et Relations Internationales
Etudes Secondaires
Lycée Tertullien Guilbaud de Port-de-Paix 1998-2005
6eme à la philo
Etudes Primaires
Ecole Cacique Henri d’Anse à Foleur 1989-1998
Maternelle au CEP
CERTIFICATS OBTENUS
Bacc I & II(MENJS)
Certificate of completion en langue anglaise de TWOL (Teach the World on Line)
Mentor : MrsVicki Kessel
Diplôme en diplomatie et Relations Internationales
LOGICIELS MAITRISES
•Logiciels de base : Word, Excel
LANGUES PARLEES & ECRITES
Créole Très bien
Français Très bien
Anglais Bien
Espagnol Bien
APTITUDES GENERALES
•Sens de responsabilité
•Esprit d’initiative
•Habilite de travailler en équipe
•Ponctualité
•Désir d’apprendre
•Capable de travailler sous pression
•Capacité d’entretenir de bonnes relations avec un grand nombre de personnes
•Une excellente capacité de jugement
REFERENCES
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Tony - Future Leader of Haiti
Meet Tony Saint Hubert he's a Future Leader of Haiti. He spends his time teaching children English and other skills that make little children (and their parents) happy. Tony is an excellent communicator and it is no surprise he would want to use his abilities to share with the children. In Haiti 36% of the population is under 15 years old. Tony is making a difference!
Monday, November 5, 2012
Private Student Loan "Pay it Forward"
Friday, November 2, 2012
"Pay it Forward" is launched!
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