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Matènwa Community School

Children and teachers engage in hands-on education, critical thinking, and mutual respect.

Institute for Learning

Teacher training for schools seeking to find a more effective way to teach.

Mother Tongue Books

Empowering children to become literate by reading and writing in their native language.

College Scholarship

Your support opens doors for young people from Lagonav to pursue university studies.

Creole Gardens

Students cultivate organic produce, practice environmental stewardship.

Summer Camp

Inspiring meaningful exchanges that strengthen community ties and inspire collaborative learning.

Art Matènwa

Nurturing creative expression by supporting women artisans.

Community Outreach

Help students and families care for elders and build lasting food security.

 

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Recycle Reuse Rebuild!

Oct 27, 2016

The Matènwa Community School is using your donations to turn the hurricane disaster into an opportunity to show our neighbors how to use the ever mounting trash of plastic bottles to rebuild their walls. This technique is successfully being used in many countries as a way to deal with their plastic trash. With no recycling on Lagonav, most people burn the trash piles after dark, while all of us involuntarily inhale the toxic fumes in our sleep.

We will rebuild our new hurricane proof walls with plastic bottle bricks! Merolus is happy to be on our list!

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