Established in 2006 with 58 seventh graders; College Pierre Toussaint currently has enrolled over 200 students in Grades 7-13.
In June of 2013 College Pierre Toussaint graduated 50 students from Grade 12 and 11 students from Grade 13. Most of the graduates from Grade 13 at CPT are currently attending various universities in Haiti, preparing themselves to become their community and country's future leaders and professionals. nurses, engineers, doctors, agronomist, teachers, etc.
By RON LAJOIE www.CNY.org
While the Class of 2013 in the Archdiocese of New York was celebrating graduation ceremonies in late May and early June, the graduating class of But it will be an historic day, indeed, when graduates of the school in Sassier,
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By RON LAJOIE www.CNY.org
At age 27, Willio Methelus is finally getting his high school diploma. He has never been held back and has maintained outstanding grades since he started school, he proudly declares. But like most children in rural Haiti, he didn�t have much chance to get an education. His father is disabled and so for most of his childhood he worked the family's subsistence farm with his sisters and brothers tending to the goats and dreaming of the day he could go to school. That chance finally came when he was 15. Was he embarrassed to be sitting in a classroom with kids half his size and half his age? I never worried about it, the willowy young man, who doesn�t look much older than his graduating classmates, told Catholic New York in Creole through an interpreter at St. Jean Baptiste parish rectory in the tiny mountain village of Sassier in rural southwest Haiti... >> Read More at Catholic New York |