Friends of Ecole Agape

Tie Wraps, Tractors, and Tarps Bring Hope To Young Girls

Behind the scenes at Friends of Ecole Agape there’s a group of hard-working volunteers who build storage shelters and drive tractors. Many tractor trips and hundreds of tie-wraps later, a shelter stands at the far end of Rikke Wassenberg’s property serving as storage for a set of tables and chairs purchased from St. Jude’s church in Willington, ready to go for the next fundraising event for Ecole Agape, the only free all-girls’ school in Haiti. Ted Hill and the newest members, Margaret Judy (aka “Maggie”) and Peter Kirk, also helped set up the structure, which involved the creative use of tarps […]

pig roast

2nd Annual Pig Roast & Concert 2017

Join us for 6 hours of live music and delicious food! Weather permitting, two special guests from Haiti will join us, Chantal Heurtelou Coutard and Marie Michele Darbouze, the nieces of Myrtha Manigat, the school’s founder, and the current administrators of Ecole Agape. The music lineup includes some of Connecticut’s best musicians, including Bruce John, Belle of the Fall, Hugh Blumenfeld, Radio Waves, and Who We Are. Admission with Free Will Donation. Bring your lawn chairs or blanket, adult beverages, and support the only free all girls’ school in Haiti! Contact Rikke at 860-810-6656 or rikkewassenberg@yahoo.com for advanced ticket reservations […]

Blaze pizza fundraiser

Blaze Pizza Dinner Night!

Pizza Night to benefit Ecole Agape at Blaze Pizza, downtown Storrs! Friends of Ecole Agape will receive 20% of your purchase. Join us Thursday, June 29, anytime between 5-8 PM. Bring a copy of the flyer shown below, in print or on your cell phone, show it to the cashier before being rung up, and enjoy your pizza! Tuesday Saints will be playing on the Storrs Green from 6:30 to 8:00 PM. Come and enjoy live music and friendship.

Former Students Testimonies

More Student Testimonies

Gina Jeanty’s Testimony I am a former student of Ecole Agape and I am one of the many children Myrtha Manigat used to help a lot, and really a lot. She gave us a very good education, raised us and feed us well in her own house. I used to live in a very poor area. I did not have access to school. I did not have access to food either which is a necessity especially for a child and any human being. Myrtha Manigat, or Manmie as we used to call her, offered me a home, a free school […]

Ecole Agape

The Haiti Reading Room Gets Helping Hands

Friends of Ecole Agape members gathered together to help bind books for the Reading Room’s flash libraries in Haiti. What is a flash library? It’s a portable library that has from 700 to 1,000 books in French and Creole set up on rolling book carts. When it’s time to use the library, the classroom is instantly transformed in a “flash” by moving desks and chairs out of the room and bookshelves into the main area. Flash libraries support schools with limited space and can serve more than 200 students before, during, or after school, over the weekends, and for summer […]

Friends of Ecole Agape pig roast

Pig Roast To Benefit Ecole Agape

Please join us for our first pig roast! Enjoy good food, great company, and live music. Admission with your good will offering will benefit our school in Haiti and help young girls attend school. See our flier and get directions below. Please contact Rikke at rikkewassenberg@yahoo.com for more information.  

Donations to Ecole Agape

10/24/2015- Memorial Service for Sister Myrtha Manigat

A memorial service was held for Myrtha Manigat, the founder of Ecole Agape, on October 24, 2015 in New York. Myrtha was born in Port-au-Prince where for a time she was an elementary school teacher but later became interested in nursing and attended the Uninversity of Sherbrooke in Canada. She became a registered nurse and worked until retirement at the University Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. She was a devout Catholic who was known as Sister Myrtha after she had joined the order, Sisters of the Myriam Family of the Prairies in Saskatchewan, Canada. After her retirement she moved back […]