notes: We Need Your Support http://www.lililiread.org/p/support-our-work.html -> HEAS POST 11-9-10: On Nov 9, 2010, at 7:52 AM: Our program reading story books to children in the camps is in 25 camps per week. We reach 3,000 children per month, We read in PAP, Delmas, St, Marie, Juvenat, Tabarre, Leogane, Pernier, Solino, Cite Soleil, etc. http://www.LiLiLiRead.org Our readers have been handing out flyers and explaining precautions, identification and how to get help to the children. There is great interest from the children and adults. We believe it is important to continue to give out information and brief the children as much as possible. We need thousands of flyers in creole to distribute to the children and their families. We don't have funds to continue making copies ourselves. Are there any suggestions on where we can get free fliers in bulk, or who can fund us so we can make copies. -------------------------------------- We Need Your Support http://www.lililiread.org/p/support-our-work.html
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mission: from website: Li, Li, Li! (which means Read, Read, Read! in Haitian Creole) is a reading out loud program in Creole for Haiti's children who became homeless because of the catastrophic January 12, 2010 earthquake. Founded in February 2010, Li, Li, Li! is a not-for-profit program based in Haiti and operating under the fiscal sponsorship of Konpay.* Our mission is three-pronged: Psychosocial, Literacy Promotion and Job Creation. We are very pleased with how our program has developed – reaching more children each week who are marginalized and still living in tent and sheet camps nine months after the January 12th earthquake. The goal of our program is to provide an engaging, interactive, and fun hour-long activity for children displaced by the earthquake that will also encourage literacy, create a model for parents to read to their children, reinforce Creole, contribute to job creation, and be part of much needed efforts to address the trauma and anxiety children are suffering since the earthquake. These anxieties continue to be compounded by fears of additional severe aftershocks or earthquakes, the continuing death toll amongst those who have survived, and the uncertainties of finding loved ones who survived. And, countless children are suffering and struggling with the pains of injuries, physical trauma, rehabilitation, and post earthquake illnesses. Reading storybooks to children helps them release tension, find new joy as well as provide them with colorful, engaging images and stories that they can use at night when trying to go to sleep. Five days a week, our trained readers are dispatched in teams of two for storytelling hour at various tent camps, hospitals, and other transitional settings -- both in rural and urban areas. We read in approximately 25 tent/sheet camps per week and reach more than 3,000 children per month from Leogane to Croix-des-Bouquets. Half of Haiti’s children have never been to school and we are finding that more than half of the children in the camps do not have access to schooling. This makes our program even more important to help expose children to books, literacy, and key subjects such as science and nature, the environment, other cultures, history, conflict resolution, sports, health, literature, etc. All of these important subjects are shared through reading storybooks out loud. Our program is very popular with the children and their families and caretakers. At a recent session, for example, 250 children showed up for a reading on St. Marie Mountain – an area that experienced enormous loss of property and lives. And, we want our program to be sustainable. Therefore, starting in October, we will train the staff from the makeshift orphanage, the center for physically challenged children, and the program in Cite Soleil so that the staff can read to children themselves. Li, Li, Li! will do the training, supply them with appropriate children’s books in Creole, and continue to participate at their centers to insure success of their reading out loud sessions. While our goal is to provide the children with relief from their emotional and physical pain, we also work through partner organizations to assure that the children in the camps have water, medical care and tents. In September, we brought a medical team to a makeshift orphanage that we read at and conducted a day of medical exams and treatment for the 150 children living there. This center was created after the earthquake because so many children in that neighborhood were left without parents or caretakers. Our program has also met many challenges in carrying out our work including heavy rains, earthquake aftershocks, insecurity, political demonstrations and general strikes, election-related violence, and gang warfare. -> from website: Li, Li, Li! (which means Read, Read, Read! in Haitian Creole) is a reading out loud program in Creole for Haiti's children who became homeless because of the catastrophic January 12, 2010 earthquake. Founded in February 2010, Li, Li, Li! is a not-for-profit program based in Haiti and operating under the fiscal sponsorship of Konpay.* Our mission is three-pronged: Psychosocial, Literacy Promotion and Job Creation. We are very pleased with how our program has developed – reaching more children each week who are marginalized and still living in tent and sheet camps nine months after the January 12th earthquake. The goal of our program is to provide an engaging, interactive, and fun hour-long activity for children displaced by the earthquake that will also encourage literacy, create a model for parents to read to their children, reinforce Creole, contribute to job creation, and be part of much needed efforts to address the trauma and anxiety children are suffering since the earthquake. These anxieties continue to be compounded by fears of additional severe aftershocks or earthquakes, the continuing death toll amongst those who have survived, and the uncertainties of finding loved ones who survived. And, countless children are suffering and struggling with the pains of injuries, physical trauma, rehabilitation, and post earthquake illnesses. Reading storybooks to children helps them release tension, find new joy as well as provide them with colorful, engaging images and stories that they can use at night when trying to go to sleep. Five days a week, our trained readers are dispatched in teams of two for storytelling hour at various tent camps, hospitals, and other transitional settings -- both in rural and urban areas. We read in approximately 25 tent/sheet camps per week and reach more than 3,000 children per month from Leogane to Croix-des-Bouquets. Half of Haiti’s children have never been to school and we are finding that more than half of the children in the camps do not have access to schooling. This makes our program even more important to help expose children to books, literacy, and key subjects such as science and nature, the environment, other cultures, history, conflict resolution, sports, health, literature, etc. All of these important subjects are shared through reading storybooks out loud. Our program is very popular with the children and their families and caretakers. At a recent session, for example, 250 children showed up for a reading on St. Marie Mountain – an area that experienced enormous loss of property and lives. And, we want our program to be sustainable. Therefore, starting in October, we will train the staff from the makeshift orphanage, the center for physically challenged children, and the program in Cite Soleil so that the staff can read to children themselves. Li, Li, Li! will do the training, supply them with appropriate children’s books in Creole, and continue to participate at their centers to insure success of their reading out loud sessions. While our goal is to provide the children with relief from their emotional and physical pain, we also work through partner organizations to assure that the children in the camps have water, medical care and tents. In September, we brought a medical team to a makeshift orphanage that we read at and conducted a day of medical exams and treatment for the 150 children living there. This center was created after the earthquake because so many children in that neighborhood were left without parents or caretakers. Our program has also met many challenges in carrying out our work including heavy rains, earthquake aftershocks, insecurity, political demonstrations and general strikes, election-related violence, and gang warfare.

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mission: from website: Li, Li, Li! (which means Read, Read, Read! in Haitian Creole) is a reading out loud program in Creole for Haiti's children who became homeless because of the catastrophic January 12, 2010 earthquake. Founded in February 2010, Li, Li, Li! is a not-for-profit program based in Haiti and operating under the fiscal sponsorship of Konpay.* Our mission is three-pronged: Psychosocial, Literacy Promotion and Job Creation. We are very pleased with how our program has developed – reaching more children each week who are marginalized and still living in tent and sheet camps nine months after the January 12th earthquake. The goal of our program is to provide an engaging, interactive, and fun hour-long activity for children displaced by the earthquake that will also encourage literacy, create a model for parents to read to their children, reinforce Creole, contribute to job creation, and be part of much needed efforts to address the trauma and anxiety children are suffering since the earthquake. These anxieties continue to be compounded by fears of additional severe aftershocks or earthquakes, the continuing death toll amongst those who have survived, and the uncertainties of finding loved ones who survived. And, countless children are suffering and struggling with the pains of injuries, physical trauma, rehabilitation, and post earthquake illnesses. Reading storybooks to children helps them release tension, find new joy as well as provide them with colorful, engaging images and stories that they can use at night when trying to go to sleep. Five days a week, our trained readers are dispatched in teams of two for storytelling hour at various tent camps, hospitals, and other transitional settings -- both in rural and urban areas. We read in approximately 25 tent/sheet camps per week and reach more than 3,000 children per month from Leogane to Croix-des-Bouquets. Half of Haiti’s children have never been to school and we are finding that more than half of the children in the camps do not have access to schooling. This makes our program even more important to help expose children to books, literacy, and key subjects such as science and nature, the environment, other cultures, history, conflict resolution, sports, health, literature, etc. All of these important subjects are shared through reading storybooks out loud. Our program is very popular with the children and their families and caretakers. At a recent session, for example, 250 children showed up for a reading on St. Marie Mountain – an area that experienced enormous loss of property and lives. And, we want our program to be sustainable. Therefore, starting in October, we will train the staff from the makeshift orphanage, the center for physically challenged children, and the program in Cite Soleil so that the staff can read to children themselves. Li, Li, Li! will do the training, supply them with appropriate children’s books in Creole, and continue to participate at their centers to insure success of their reading out loud sessions. While our goal is to provide the children with relief from their emotional and physical pain, we also work through partner organizations to assure that the children in the camps have water, medical care and tents. In September, we brought a medical team to a makeshift orphanage that we read at and conducted a day of medical exams and treatment for the 150 children living there. This center was created after the earthquake because so many children in that neighborhood were left without parents or caretakers. Our program has also met many challenges in carrying out our work including heavy rains, earthquake aftershocks, insecurity, political demonstrations and general strikes, election-related violence, and gang warfare. -> from website: Li, Li, Li! (which means Read, Read, Read! in Haitian Creole) is a reading out loud program in Creole for Haiti's children who became homeless because of the catastrophic January 12, 2010 earthquake. Founded in February 2010, Li, Li, Li! is a not-for-profit program based in Haiti and operating under the fiscal sponsorship of Konpay.* Our mission is three-pronged: Psychosocial, Literacy Promotion and Job Creation. We are very pleased with how our program has developed – reaching more children each week who are marginalized and still living in tent and sheet camps nine months after the January 12th earthquake. The goal of our program is to provide an engaging, interactive, and fun hour-long activity for children displaced by the earthquake that will also encourage literacy, create a model for parents to read to their children, reinforce Creole, contribute to job creation, and be part of much needed efforts to address the trauma and anxiety children are suffering since the earthquake. These anxieties continue to be compounded by fears of additional severe aftershocks or earthquakes, the continuing death toll amongst those who have survived, and the uncertainties of finding loved ones who survived. And, countless children are suffering and struggling with the pains of injuries, physical trauma, rehabilitation, and post earthquake illnesses. Reading storybooks to children helps them release tension, find new joy as well as provide them with colorful, engaging images and stories that they can use at night when trying to go to sleep. Five days a week, our trained readers are dispatched in teams of two for storytelling hour at various tent camps, hospitals, and other transitional settings -- both in rural and urban areas. We read in approximately 25 tent/sheet camps per week and reach more than 3,000 children per month from Leogane to Croix-des-Bouquets. Half of Haiti’s children have never been to school and we are finding that more than half of the children in the camps do not have access to schooling. This makes our program even more important to help expose children to books, literacy, and key subjects such as science and nature, the environment, other cultures, history, conflict resolution, sports, health, literature, etc. All of these important subjects are shared through reading storybooks out loud. Our program is very popular with the children and their families and caretakers. At a recent session, for example, 250 children showed up for a reading on St. Marie Mountain – an area that experienced enormous loss of property and lives. And, we want our program to be sustainable. Therefore, starting in October, we will train the staff from the makeshift orphanage, the center for physically challenged children, and the program in Cite Soleil so that the staff can read to children themselves. Li, Li, Li! will do the training, supply them with appropriate children’s books in Creole, and continue to participate at their centers to insure success of their reading out loud sessions. While our goal is to provide the children with relief from their emotional and physical pain, we also work through partner organizations to assure that the children in the camps have water, medical care and tents. In September, we brought a medical team to a makeshift orphanage that we read at and conducted a day of medical exams and treatment for the 150 children living there. This center was created after the earthquake because so many children in that neighborhood were left without parents or caretakers. Our program has also met many challenges in carrying out our work including heavy rains, earthquake aftershocks, insecurity, political demonstrations and general strikes, election-related violence, and gang warfare.

mission: from website: Li, Li, Li! (which means Read, Read, Read! in Haitian Creole) is a reading out loud program in Creole for Haiti's children who became homeless because of the catastrophic January 12, 2010 earthquake. Founded in February 2010, Li, Li, Li! is a not-for-profit program based in Haiti and operating under the fiscal sponsorship of Konpay.* Our mission is three-pronged: Psychosocial, Literacy Promotion and Job Creation. We are very pleased with how our program has developed – reaching more children each week who are marginalized and still living in tent and sheet camps nine months after the January 12th earthquake. -> from website: Li, Li, Li! (which means Read, Read, Read! in Haitian Creole) is a reading out loud program in Creole for Haiti's children who became homeless because of the catastrophic January 12, 2010 earthquake. Founded in February 2010, Li, Li, Li! is a not-for-profit program based in Haiti and operating under the fiscal sponsorship of Konpay.* Our mission is three-pronged: Psychosocial, Literacy Promotion and Job Creation. We are very pleased with how our program has developed – reaching more children each week who are marginalized and still living in tent and sheet camps nine months after the January 12th earthquake. The goal of our program is to provide an engaging, interactive, and fun hour-long activity for children displaced by the earthquake that will also encourage literacy, create a model for parents to read to their children, reinforce Creole, contribute to job creation, and be part of much needed efforts to address the trauma and anxiety children are suffering since the earthquake. These anxieties continue to be compounded by fears of additional severe aftershocks or earthquakes, the continuing death toll amongst those who have survived, and the uncertainties of finding loved ones who survived. And, countless children are suffering and struggling with the pains of injuries, physical trauma, rehabilitation, and post earthquake illnesses. Reading storybooks to children helps them release tension, find new joy as well as provide them with colorful, engaging images and stories that they can use at night when trying to go to sleep. Five days a week, our trained readers are dispatched in teams of two for storytelling hour at various tent camps, hospitals, and other transitional settings -- both in rural and urban areas. We read in approximately 25 tent/sheet camps per week and reach more than 3,000 children per month from Leogane to Croix-des-Bouquets. Half of Haiti’s children have never been to school and we are finding that more than half of the children in the camps do not have access to schooling. This makes our program even more important to help expose children to books, literacy, and key subjects such as science and nature, the environment, other cultures, history, conflict resolution, sports, health, literature, etc. All of these important subjects are shared through reading storybooks out loud. Our program is very popular with the children and their families and caretakers. At a recent session, for example, 250 children showed up for a reading on St. Marie Mountain – an area that experienced enormous loss of property and lives. And, we want our program to be sustainable. Therefore, starting in October, we will train the staff from the makeshift orphanage, the center for physically challenged children, and the program in Cite Soleil so that the staff can read to children themselves. Li, Li, Li! will do the training, supply them with appropriate children’s books in Creole, and continue to participate at their centers to insure success of their reading out loud sessions. While our goal is to provide the children with relief from their emotional and physical pain, we also work through partner organizations to assure that the children in the camps have water, medical care and tents. In September, we brought a medical team to a makeshift orphanage that we read at and conducted a day of medical exams and treatment for the 150 children living there. This center was created after the earthquake because so many children in that neighborhood were left without parents or caretakers. Our program has also met many challenges in carrying out our work including heavy rains, earthquake aftershocks, insecurity, political demonstrations and general strikes, election-related violence, and gang warfare.

address: 70A Greenwich Avenue, Suite 373 New York, New York 10011 -> U.S. ADDR: 70A Greenwich Avenue, Suite 373, New York, New York 10011 HAITI
region: -> Haiti, Caribbean