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Boston:
Mattapan Tech will hold pilot
workshops on November 20,23 and 26 in
Haiti focused on proposal writing and
project planning in November. In the
aftermath of the January 12th
earthquake that killed thousands of
Haitians and destroyed Port-au-Prince,
the capital of Haiti, local and
international organizations rushed to
Haiti in an effort to help with
rebuilding. Mattapan Tech is an
institution specializing in providing
project management and computer
technology training in Massachusetts.
The school designed a series of
free workshops to update the skills of
managers of non-profit and private
organizations in anticipation that
these skilled project managers will be
a necessity for a successful Haiti
reconstruction project.
To
assist in this difficult endeavor, a
group of Wentworth Institute of
Technology alumni with extended
project management experience and
project management instructors at
Mattapan Tech will travel to Haiti on
a 10-day mission.
Despite
the outbreak of Cholera that hit Haiti
last week and which already caused
nearly 300 deaths in
Port-au-Prince’s neighboring towns,
last night the volunteers of the
Greater Boston/ Mattapan School of
Technology reiterated their engagement
to depart from Boston on November 20.
Harold
Newcomb, Jr., a Vietnam War US Army
veteran, and Karrie Ann Jean, the
director of Mattapan Tech, have been
very instrumental in raising funds to
support the mission and keeping the
crew motivated and focused on their
specific humanitarian goal.
Christine
Malcolm, the new head of the student
committee at Mattapan Tech launched an
initiative aimed at collecting
children’s and women’s clothing
for Haiti and money for a contingency
fund to cover unexpected expenses in
response to the possible escalated
violence related to the upcoming
election and threats cause by the
Cholera outbreak.
Katleen
Felix, the US coordinator of zafen.org,
an organization that provides
financial and logistic support to
small projects in Haiti and the
Clinton Global Initiative have also
renewed their commitment to this
endeavor.
Send
your package or check to Mattapan
Tech, 24 Regis Rd, Mattapan, MA,
02126.
Noting that clothes should be
clean and in good condition. The
delegation will leave on November 20,
2010.
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