PROJECTS
MUNICIPAL LIBRARY AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER
The library project is based on the realization that literacy efforts cannot exist in a vacuum. In a country like Haiti, without the positive influence of the community, the child has few if any opportunities to view reading and learning in appositive light. He or she will consequently have little incentive to take on intellectual challenges. Perhaps most importantly, the child will not come to experience the joys that come from reading, technology and learning.
The project will have four primary objectives:
1. Raising academic achievement among Mirebalais students,
2. Fostering a love for reading and learning that extends beyond the school day and school walls,
3. Extending literacy efforts to include professionals, and the community at large, and
4. Providing technological opportunities to bridge the digital divide in Mirebalais by developing a positive, pervasive, life-long interest in using the resources provided through technology access.
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LEARN TO READ AND WRITE
Learn to Read & Write Is a Right: Improving Reading and Writing Performance for Disadvantaged Children.
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Past Projects
October 2006 – FATEM contributed to the purchase of 15 street lamps for the city of Mirebalais.
June 2007 – FATEM donated 20 pairs of shoes to ASM, the local soccer team.
October 2007 - We distributed 5,000 notebooks and other school supplies to children in some of the rural areas. Through our "Learn to Read and Write" program 140 children received each 1,250 gourdes, as tuition assistance.
October 2007 - Inauguration in Mirebalais of a weekly radio show about rights and responsibilities one has as member of a community.
April 2008 - FATEM collaborated with ASTAM (Association des Techniciens pour l'Avancement de Mirebalais) through a partnership with the local COPRODEP under the PRODEP program to install new and improved street signs throughout the city, in an effort to facilitate traffic.
July 2008 - FATEM joined forces with OPAJEC (Organisation des Paysans et des Jeunes du Centre) through a partnership with the local COPRODEP (under the PRODEP program and the World Bank's CDD initiative) to implement a small computer lab for students and professionals to conduct research.
August 2008 - FATEM provided financial assistance to an initiative to train 185 agricultural, community health, veterinary and construction technicians/agents to serve the needs of the region in multiple domains.
August 2008 - FATEM financially supported REFAM (Rezo Fanm Mibalè) in its organization of an exposition of products made by the women, in an effort to encourage and foster their development throughout the city of Mirebalais and its immediate surroundings.
Future Projects
ICT For All
- Continue our crusade to bridge the digital divide by implementing a computer lab in each of the four communal sections of Mirebalais.
IT Teachers Training
- Provide computer literacy training for teachers.
To Learn to Read and Write Is a Right (Expansion)
- Increase the number of participating schools to cover all four communal sections of Mirebalais
- Train the teachers
- Rebuild the participating schools
- Initiate a tutoring program whereby older students help younger ones
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