Haiti Working Group Film Screening & Discussion
Please RSVP to Katherine Comeau at kcomeau@nd.edu if you plan to attend.
The Haiti Working Group invites you to a screening of the new documentary film, Father Joseph (11:00-12:15 in Geddes Hall Auditorium).
A discussion will follow over lunch (12:30-1:30 in Geddes Hall Room 233).
Father Joseph founded Haiti’s largest micro-credit bank for the poor (Sèvis Finansye Fonkoze) with a special mission of empowering peasant women through literacy classes, small business training, and community-building loans. He also founded a 650-student K-14 school, an orphanage, a clean water project, a reforestation program (planting thousands of trees), a health clinic, a radio station, a home construction effort, and The University of Fondwa (Haiti’s first rural, Creole language college).” Over the years - despite the murders of close friends and colleagues, the destruction of his buildings in the 2010 earthquake, and recent damage due to Hurricane Matthew - Father Joseph continues to serve his country with a remarkable sense of humor, inspiring determination, and a relentless faith.
The film trailer can be seen here.
Building on the multidisciplinary breadth and depth of Notre Dame’s scholarly engagement with Haiti, the Haiti Working Group brings together faculty and student researchers from across the University’s schools and colleges to share ideas, give feedback on each other’s work, and interact with outside speakers. With participants from the sciences and engineering, social sciences, humanities, education, and business, the working group aims to facilitate better scholarship and collaboration on a range of academic and applied research on Haiti.
Chair: Karen Richman
Graduate Student Contact: Katie Comeau (kcomeau@nd.edu)