FrOMFrOMCFFLCFFLMarch 2014

Students finished the semester at the end of February and had a two-week vacation. The break included time for professors to plan their next semester, students to take a break, and everyone to enjoy Carnaval!Students returned from their vacations on March 17th. “On my vacation, I read many books and played soccer,” said Ephisen Noel, a student in TTB. “I did not have a vacation; I worked on our construction project in Lahoy last week,” said Indy Pierre, the class presi-dent of TGC. We are looking forward to a great, challenging semester!

Students Help Build New Biodigestor

This month we had Stephanie Lansing, David Waters, and Alex Eaton at CFFL to help install our brand new biodiges-tor and give students a workshop on how these will be utilized.

Clemson engineers Sam Knobeloch and Taylor Sams are constructing a toilet that will pipe waste into the biodigest-ers. In addition, the engineers have created a mixing tank to include waste from CFFL’s new piggery. The biodiges-tor will then produce methane that provides an alternative to charcoal as source of fuel. “It’s a good initiative to stop deforestation in Haiti and to help protect the environment,” said Sadrack Gracia, agriculture student.

Sewanee Visits CFFL

While the agriculture students studied biodigesters with Alex Eaton, a group of roughly 20 students from Sewanee University in Tennessee paid a visit to the campus. The Sewanee team, led by professor Deborah McGrath, collabo-rated with two Zanmi Agrikol interns, Maxo Noel and Wupuy Bosquet on the project Zanmi Kafe (Partners in Coffee). During their two-week stay, Sewanee students worked alongside Haitian farmers from the rural towns of Bois Joli and Blanchard to start a new coffee tree nursery. Approximately forty families from both towns will plant coffee and, with help from Maxo, Bosquet, and Se-wanee - produce more delicious Haitian coffee in a few years. To help support the project, Sewanee will send down interns for several weeks this summer. In the meantime, Maxo and Bosquet - and, of course, the farmers - will con-tinue their hard work on Zanmi Kafe.

(top-bottom): Students give a writing presentation; Se-wanee visitors; The ag class learn about biodigestors

Welcome back!

Centre de Formation Fritz Lafontant - Corporant, Haiti - March 2014

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New Classes for all classes!

TA (Agriculture):• NaturalResources• Phytopathology• WorkExperienceTGC (Construction):• Topography• Entreprenuership• UrbanismandRoads• Electricity• FinalGraduatingProjectsTTB (Woodworking):• WoodturningandSculpting• Topography• Electricity• FinalGraduatingProjects

Featured CFFL Pillar:Work Ethics

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Creativity Blooms at CFFL

CFFL believes that all students should graduate well-rounded, capable of ex-pressing themselves, and communicating clearly. This is where Scott Gould comes in. Scott is a creative writing teacher at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts, and he kindly agreed to do a week of daily seminars. Throughout the week, Scott challenged students like Richarson Bos-quet (below) with thinking abstractly and illustrate ideas through details they notice in the world around them.

Students also worked on improving theirlanguage skills by translating their writing assignments into English. It became clear that the students have a lot to say about the world. On Friday March 21, Scott’s last day, fifteen volunteers presented their work - poems, prose and song - in English for the student body and teachers. Stu-dents came away with a new appreciation for the small details of daily life and new skills to help them with their English and

writing in general. Scott also worked with the CFFL English teachers to help incorpo-rate more creative writing into the class’ curriculum. Thanks to Scott’s hard work, creativity will keep on flourishing at CFFL!

Au Revoir, Knox!

On March 19, we said goodbye to Mr. Knox Haynsworth, volunteer here at CFFL. The agriculture students threw Knox a going away party, complete with cake, music, and dancing. “We are so happy that you came to work with us. Thank you so much. We know this is not the last time we will seeyou,”saidRoselaureLaMontagne,theagriculture class president. Best of luck at your new horticulture position back in the States, Knox!

Visit us at facebook.com/ CentreDeFormationFritzLa-fontant for news and updates throughout the month!

Centre de Formation Fritz Lafontant - Corporant, Haiti - March 2014

Kreyol pale, Kreyol Konprann.Kreyol Spoken is Kreyol Understood.

While Haitians love detail in their stories and explanations, honesty and simplicity are preferred when delivering a message. Haitians use this proverb to say, "Speak plainly! Don't try to decieve!" Here, student Victoire Bernard poses with her honest and powerful poem entitled “Haiti, My Country”.

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At CFFL, one of our core pillars is eth-ics.This includes integrity in our teach-ing in our work disciplines and re-spect of international building codes.This week, a team of engineers from Clemson Engineers for Developing Countries (CEDC) visited CFFL. We are proud to announce that with their assistance, we will be rais-ing our teaching standards for our construction students through:

•Teachingthenewbuildingcodes•Supervisedhands-onpractice•Importanceofafairday’swork•Usingahigherqualityblockfromour plant in Domond•Seismicplanning

These changes will ensure safer, sturdier buildings that are more re-sistant to natural disasters. A huge thanks to Gillaine Warne, Abra-ham Cerventes, David Vaughn, Sam Knobeloch, Taylor Sams, and