GSF at the heart of our communities
In many of the photos of our students and school children seen on this website, you may notice the clean and bright uniforms the students wear. For many years, seamstresses and seamsters in the community, such as Janine (below), sew these uniforms for our students. Because of the sewing classes we offer at our La Hatte school, we were able to lend our sewing machine to the effort to complete this year’s uniforms when Janine’s machine broke.
Janine was able to make use of our sewing machine to complete the uniforms, with some help!
But our GSF students, who are also learning sewing in our programs, are now able to help make our uniforms too! These uniform orders from parents are helping them build up the experience to become professional seamsters and seamstresses, just one more way a GSF education contributes to the development of our communities.
Nadia, a GSF sewing students, has completed two years of sewing courses and now knows how to make all kinds of garments. Here she completes her order of 30 uniforms, and is well on her way to becoming a professional!
Tanis Pierre, another of our students, has his own orders too and is completing them here. It was a great day of making clothes together at GSF La Hatte.
Making clothes for our students is just one of the ways our GSF schools have become part of the heart of our communities. Recently, the La Hatte school hosting a Parent Meeting for the parents of students. With students of all ages, and some newer parents of kindergarteners, the purpose of the meeting was to inform and engage with the parents on the importance of parental input for success at school, such as supervising homework. Attendance was very strong at this meeting, and it gave the parents and our staff a chance to get to know each other better.
The room was so full that there was overflow seating outside!
Of course, the agriculture programs of GSF, that directly support our school with fresh, nutritious food produced in turbulent times across the country, are never inactive! For example, the GSF apiary (bee garden) produces honey and provides crucial pollination for many plants in the area. Here, Pedro (the chief agriculture assistant) tends the hives.
