Thanks to all our donors, golfers, sponsors and awesome volunteers who helped make the 3rd annual Tek4Kids Golf Scramble a success! We had absolutely gorgeous weather for more than 80 golfers who participated in the scramble on September 15th at Champions Pointe Golf Club in Henryville, Indiana. The event included 18 holes of golf, a silent auction, a boxed lunch courtesy of Jason’s Deli and an awards dinner supported by Stumler’s Restaurant & Orchard along with Cisco and EMC.
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2015 Summer Session is a Success!
Beginning with our opening session on June 23 through many hours of working, planning, learning and playing together during the following ten days, our 2015 Summer Session was a huge success!
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Haiti Staff Member Receives an Award!
Janvier Allenz, one of our teachers in Haiti, received an award for his hard work and dedication to Tek4Kids. He was presented a certificate for his punctuality, teamwork, collaborative skills and his dedication to the mission of Tek4Kids. Allenz worked hard to help our head teacher, Laura Desmangles, organize a two-week training session for the Tek4Kids teachers in June, providing her with assistance in preparation and support throughout. Allenz did an exceptional job in planning and scheduling for the technology classes for the upcoming 2015-2016 school year. Well done, Allenz!
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Technical School Set to Begin in Fall, 2015!
This September, Tek4Kids will continue its efforts to provide a brighter future to students in Haiti by beginning its college-level program. Building on our experience and knowledge gained over the past several years, we will provide scholarships to students who exhibit strong motivation and academic achievement to enter the technical school. We plan to train these young adults in Information Technology fields such as computer programming and website design.
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Tek4Kids Honors Its Volunteers
Tek4Kids is grateful to all of our great volunteers for their commitment, dedication and service. They are an integral part of bringing the dream of a brighter future to our students in Haiti! We want to highlight three of them:
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Reflections on My Time in Haiti by Cheryl Davis
We booked our flight to Haiti one day before my sister was involved in a serious auto accident. My attention and energies were immediately focused on her and remained there until she was stabilized and making a good recovery several weeks later. By that time, Christmas preparations were in full swing as well as planning for an out-of-town family wedding to welcome in 2015. The few weeks remaining to prepare for our Tek4Kids staff trip to Haiti were a whirlwind of activity: purchasing supplies, clothing and medicines, handling routine home and work responsibilities and learning as much as I could about a new country and culture before traveling there.
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Impressions From My Trip to Haiti by Jessica Edelen
The little six-seater plane that flew us from Port au Prince to Jérémie turned out not to be as terrifying as I had built it up in my head to be. Roger was a skilled pilot and I had my rosary with me, as did Cathy. We couldn’t crash now, right? And we didn’t. In fact, the bumpy ride in the pickup truck to the Tek4Kids house was much more treacherous than the plane ride.
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Haiti One on One
Haiti One on One provides an opportunity to experience the joy of giving to those whose needs are great. Interested persons donate $700 and Haiti One on One will match the amount and construct a small home for $1,400. Donors are able to help a family secure a home and often times able to provide food, clothes and furniture. It’s a great way to feel good about oneself. Haiti One on One projects have also included building a waterline to a village of 7,000 people, providing fresh drinking water.
Tek4Kids’ initial connection with Haiti One on One was through Joe Desrochers, aTek4Kids board member. Haiti One on One and Tek4Kids regularly collaborate on construction projects with our partnered schools. Some of these projects have included installing drinking fountains and restrooms in schools. On a regular basis, we share information on how to improve and support the education needs of students and the community of Jeremie.
Contact: joseph.e.desrochers@gmail.com
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Pro-Haiti
Pro-Haiti is a non-profit organization established in 1993, in partnership with Haiti. Many of the founders are from tech companies such as IBM and HP. The organization supports ideological and material development projects in Haiti, which are an effective aid for self-help to the population especially in rural areas for social and economic issues. Projects must be coordinated with a Haitian company.
Target group: Young people
Focus of funding: Vocational training in mechanics, electrical engineering, automotive engineering, set up of workshops for cooperatives for graduates.
Regions: Jeremie (Grand ‘Anse region), Leogane (Port au Prince region.)
Pro-Haiti and Tek4Kids are connected through mutual sharing of information centered around technology needs of students in Jeremie, Haiti and how to create a more robust learning environment for students.
Click here to visit their website: http://www.pro-haiti.de
All images in this post are owned by Pro-Haiti.
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Senior Experten Service
(SES) is the Foundation of German Industry for International Cooperation (Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit). It is a non-profit organization.SES offers interested retirees the opportunity to pass on their skills and knowledge to others, both within Germany and abroad. They work in a voluntary capacity as Senior Experts, helping to train both specialist workers and management staff. They help others to help themselves – an important contribution towards safeguarding a small slice of the future. It is a system that benefits all parties.
Senior Experts generally work in small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as with providers of vocational training and health care services, but it is also employed by such organizations and institutions as the German Agency for International Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit – GIZ). The duration of these honorary assignments ranges usually from three to six weeks; the maximum duration is six months. A Senior Expert can be requested for follow-up assignments to ensure the sustainability of his or her work.
At the beginning of 2017, more than 12,000 highly motivated professionals from different segments of trade and industry were registered at SES.
The motto of SES is: Future needs experience!
SES and Tek4Kids have collaborated on building projects at St. Therese Montessori School in Jeremie, Haiti. The most recent project included building a computer room for students and teachers.
Click here to visit website: http://lang.ses-bonn.de/en/clients/how-and-where-do-we-help.html
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Progress and Plans for 2015
Dear Friends,
Thank you so much for your caring and generous support over the past year. At Tek4Kids, we are actively involved in the community of Jeremie, Haiti working with six schools and our first orphanage, providing clean water for drinking and improving education through modern technology for hundreds of school children.
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Progress in Jeremie, Haiti
Here’s an update about our work in Jeremie! We are glad to report that Don Kavanaugh prepared a network and three laptops and our team prepared a secure room that is open to all the teachers and staff at Saint Louis High School. This allows the teachers to have internet access, resulting in better class preparation and the expansion and sharing of knowledge.