Emma Willard in the News

Concert to Benefit Haiti

April 13, 2010

n Friday, April 16, Emma Willard School students will present the Haiti Benefit Concert in Kiggins Hall at 8pm. Come out for an evening of student performances of singing, dancing, film, spoken word, instrumental solos, and multi-media slide shows and videos. All money raised will go towards Haiti relief.

Emma Willard alumna Barbara Snyder Lott ’65 is the Haiti coordinator at St. Patrick’s Church in Washington, DC. St. Patrick’s is connected with and has been supporting (for the last 30 years) two schools in the village of St. Etienne (3 miles from the fault line). One primary school sustained damage (local Episcopal day school) and the other was destroyed (Christ Redempteur School). Reconstruction is essential before the hurricane season, not only for shelter but for constructing a food storage depot required by the World Food Program (WTP) in order to recommence the daily lunch program (currently not running). For all the children that attended these schools, the school lunch is the only meal they eat all day and for some, all week.
 
Emma Willard alumnae Linda F. Stevens ’61 is the Albany Episcopal Diocesan mission coordinator based out of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Troy (the church that Emma Hart Willard attended). They are sending another mission team to the Good Faith Orphanage in Port-au-Prince. The funds will go towards repairing part of the orphanage and rebuilding the collapsed school associated with the orphanage.

If the Emma Willard concert raises more than their goal of $3,000, they will send the extra funds to the school of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Lascahobas, a school unaffected by the earthquake but now severely overcrowded with students diverted by the earthquake.

Donations of cash or checks (made payable to Emma Willard School with "Haiti" in the memo line) will be taken at the door. There will also be a bake sale. Receipts for your tax-deductable donation will be available upon request.