A recent trip to Haiti included a successful teacher training and a terrific start to Ecole Agape’s Flash Library. When Paul and Elizabeth Wicks of the Reading Room first arrived at Ecole Agape, they found the second floor’s sixth grade classroom cleared out. Chantal Coutard, the niece of the school’s founder, Myrtha Manigat, had decided to install the Flash Library here, where the library was originally located.
There’s a nice breeze on the second floor, and the room’s bigger and has more light than the small room that was designated as the clinic and has also been relocated, Chantal said. They moved the locking glass doors off the three existing built-in shelves and converted them to book display racks. As you can see in the photos, the end result is a wonderful beginning for the Ecole Agape Library.
The librarian, Claicia and her boys helped Paul set the shelves up while Elizabeth and Chantal were leading the teaching seminar. The seminar concluded with a library tour for some very excited teachers.
