The Good Samaritan School, Haiti

C.S. 211 in the Bronx - What a terrific School!

On Friday, Pam Koprowski, Danelie Millien, Joanne Kimball and I traveled to the Bronx to meet with Rick Feldman's Library students. What we got was a huge dose of a fabulous school.

School Principal Betty Gonzalez-Soto has created an energetic atmosphere of learning and growing. Every single child was well mannered and attentive. Rick had gathered volunteers to read aloud to various classes and the morning started with a large group in the Library. They then dispersed to classrooms for the reading time. One volunteer came back later and told Rick that ten kids said they wanted to check out the book she had started reading.

After the reading period, children and teachers gathered back in the Library to watch out video and to make their presentations to the Good Samaritan Rebuilding Fund. The pictures below tell the story. Special thanks to Maria Maldonado whose children put together big poster with lovely personalized art work.

Among the things we received were three large rolling duffle bags filled with school supplies that Rick will bring up to Stamford sometime soon. There was also a hand decorated box of notebooks and pens that was given to the children in Haiti. The biggest surprise of all, however, was a box filled with donations. When we got home and counted the dollars and coins, the total was $670.55. On behalf of the children of Carrefour who go to École le bon Samaritain, Thank You C.S. 211!