The school in Cite has been completed and is up and running! Kids are back in school, the community center is re-opened, and we are all extremely grateful. We were also informed that this was the first school to reopen in the entire Jacmel region, and possibly in all of Haiti. This school will serve over 600 children during the days, will be a community center in the afternoons and evenings, and will be a shelter for families who lost their homes to sleep in at night. Everyone benefits! For those of you who have ever doubted the ability of one person, or a small group of people, to change the world - after nearly one billion dollars was raised for Haiti relief (with you helping us raise a mere .00025 of that), our school was the first to reopen. Yes, a small group of people can make a big difference - and I jsut wanted to say a personal thank you to Andrew Treleaven and Ryan Seguin - for taking over when I was unable to physically (new surgeries start in May) finish the job... Barton School in Cité following the earthquake: School in Cité today due to your help! THANK YOU!!
 
Also, our clean water program has already provided sustainable clean water for over 2,000 people in this region, and filters are still being distributed! UP NEXT? Now that a few things are in place, we are going to focus our energy on two more schools. As with our school in Cité, these two structures will be used for schools for the children during the day, and then shelters in the evenings for families who lost their homes in the earthquake. School #2 is in Jacmel and will be completed with the support of Teddy Landis - a young man in NYC who decided to take it on as his Bar Mitzvah project! We will break ground shortly, and just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to TEDDY! TEDDY'S SCHOOL PROJECT - this is the current school since the earthquake -anticipated reconstruction completed in June. 
School #3... Our dear friends Nick and Gwenn Mangine, and Danny and Leann Pye have a school partially reconstructed in Bassin Bleu. This is where we will focus our Guerrilla Aid efforts and donations this summer - to help them complete their school! 
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Guerrilla Aid is a style of volunteerism - simply go somewhere and do something,
while teaching others to do the same.
