Year: 2017

1- Institution du Bon Pasteur, in Lasserre-commune, Croix des Bouquets a new school which opened in October 2016. The school was opened by the Kernizan family, whose sons attended the Peter Hesse Foundation’s demonstration preschool 25 years ago, and are

A workshop for teachers to make reading materials for their classrooms was held on January 13th and 14th at the Foundation’s residential training in Liancourt. The workshop was attended by teachers who started new schools as well as teachers from

Students visited the Wynne Farm Nature Reserve in Kenscoff and saw firsthand, composting methods, vertical planting, and different planting techniques. They also saw alternative environmentally friendly buildings, one made from Bamboo, one from recycled styrofoam plates and one from earth

After a short board-meeting of the Peter-Hesse-Foundation deciding on future positions on the Foundation-board, we celebrated “life as a gift – and a challenge”, with 161 guests, mostly friends and supporters of our Foundation’s work to train Montessori preschool-teachers in Haiti: Successful 30 years of

Planting and caring for trees at the teacher training Center is paying off. We are already harvesting fruit and serving it in our student cafeteria, including mangoes, tropical cherries, bananas and carambola. We are also harvesting our own sugar apples,

Cheers to the 32 new Montessori teachers who celebrated their graduation on July 15th, 2017 at the Peter Hesse Foundation’s Teacher Training Centre in Liancourt. The occasion was marked by speeches, poetry, dance and merriment. The teachers have completed their

The Center hosted 64 teachers from 19 Montessori schools around Haiti for the annual in-service training this month. These teachers were all trained by us over the years.These in-service seminars are always very popular with our teachers, both to learn

The Peter-Hesse-Foundation welcomed 30 new student teachers at its training center in Liancourt. These students will graduate in July 2018 adding to the 900 + teachers and teaching assistants who have been trained by the Foundation’s training centre “Centre Montessori

Two days well spent in the teacher-training campus of the Peter-Hesse-Foundation in Liancourt, Haiti: Two of the 7 teachers attending in Liancourt making materials for their schools. Didactical materials are in short supply in Haiti and most schools do not

Since the new teacher training centre was built after the earthquake, the Foundation has trained 94 teachers, and helped some of them to set up 6 new schools. 95% of teachers who graduated in the first 5 teacher-training promotions, are