Student Viewpoint: Marielle Laprès
Marielle Laprès and Gena Robinson
As a Catholic community and institution, LCS has strict rules so the students can grow intellectually and become important citizens of Haiti. We have mass every two weeks and the students enjoy praying to God to keep our school excellent. We cleanup our school each afternoon and have work hour to keep our environment clean. Our community service at the Missionaries of Charity Hospital is a program to help kids who are very sick.
I am Marielle Laprès, a Philo student on my way to graduate in June of 2007. I participated in all these activities since I entered LCS seven years ago. We practice sports and work hard with everyone. As a Philo student, I supervise a group of 16 students for the year. Every day we have a little meeting in the morning to discuss various subjects which make our knowledge of life richer. I speak four languages, and I help my group to practice these languages—English, Spanish, French, and Haitian Kreyol, our native language. We have a computer lab and a science lab to make experiments. I also help the young kids of our neighborhood to read and write. Our school is great, and our goal is to rebuild Haiti.
The objective of The Haitian Project is to help poor Haitian parents so their children can have a better education. It also helps to rebuild Haiti by involving the students in community service.
According to the philosophy in Matthew 10:8 “What you receive as a gift, you must give as a gift,” LCS freely offers an education for the youth. LCS is a boarding school serving young women and men. This school is very different from the other schools in Haiti. We are different because in this school, we are shown how to live in community—a great opportunity that other schools don’t give to their students. This system works differently from the other schools which focus only on academic skills. The students of LCS work hard and without restraint. At LCS, we live, help, know, and love each other as brothers and sisters.
