How do you raise awareness of a very valuable cause while providing continued
funding to a key project that could help hundreds of thousands people from Haiti? Well,
you write a book. And then you tell your friends to pass the word along.
World Youth Served (WYS) has offered to assist Shaping Haiti’s Youth (West Palm Beach, FL) in the sale of “Mosaïque de Mots”, a bilingual French/English book of poems written by Shaping Haiti’s Youth (SHY) President Dr. Raymond Rene. All proceeds from the book will go toward SHY’s current efforts in completing construction of an 8,000 square-foot facility that will house a School of Arts and Crafts scheduled to open in Jérémie, Haiti, in early 2016.
“Mosaïque de Mots” takes the reader through Jérémie as if going into a time machine, reliving Dr. Rene’s childhood and adolescence. With brilliant penmanship, Dr. Rene is not shy about sharing his feelings about his hometown of Jérémie; entering his personal world from page to page introduces the important people in his life, even his siblings who have passed. The book contains some pictures to provide the reader with a visual aid to the wonderfully written verses. And towards the end of the book, Dr. Rene provides some thoughts of wisdom from a long, full and well-lived life. Dr. Rene is a retired medical doctor living in West Palm Beach, FL, and has worked as an obstetrician and gynecologist for over 35 years, both in Haiti and in the US.
Shaping Haiti’s Youth is a not-for-profit organization with its social headquarters in
West Palm Beach, FL. Shaping Haiti’s Youth aims to improves the lives of the youth in
the impoverished nation of Haiti by strategically focusing on the southwestern city of
Jérémie, Haiti, the major city that is the furthest from the epicenter of the devastating
earthquake of January 12, 2010 that claimed the lives of almost 300,000 Haitians.
Shaping Haiti’s Youth projects to implement educational initiatives, youth social and
sports development programs, all aiming to enhance the lives of the youth of the country
so that they contribute to the future wealth of the country as productive citizens. Learn
more about Shaping Haiti’s Youth at www.shapinghaitisyouth.org.
About The Jeremie (Haiti) School of Arts and Crafts
The School of Arts and Crafts is a program lead by Shaping Haiti’s Youth to build and develop a vocational school in Jérémie that would allow high school graduates in the area to attend an institution of higher learning while staying close to home. While Shaping Haiti’s Youth has already secured an 8,000 square-foot facility near downtown Jérémie, World Youth Served will be a major player in providing startup funds to furnish the school and make it self-sustaining by Fall 2018.
