Students from the “Berufskolleg Kempen” vocational school in Germany made a second visit to Haiti in their continuing support to build a new teacher training center in the small town of Liancourt to replace the one that was destroyed in the 2010 earthquake. So far two groups of young men who said “We do not have money but we can build” have given-up their school vacation to work on the construction. The first group succeeded in building the foundations for 9 buildings of the campus during the 2011 Easter vacation. The second group worked from 13th to 31st October 2011. They worked on the sanitary installations and added the walls to 8 of the foundations, especially to the dormitories.
We are working to raise enough money to complete the roof during the Easter holidays 2012 when a third group of students will go to Haiti to continue building the training halls and the water supply-connections. Rotary has promised to drill the needed well. We still need financing for basic furnishings of the buildings and for the needed solar power to finally start the formation of new teachers in the fall of 2012.
Peter Hesse, Early in November 2011