"Just about everything at Ste. Trinité was flattened — the famed Anglican cathedral, a UNESCO world heritage site, as well as the primary, music and technical schools that grew up around it.
Pocius’s own escape was narrow; her ensuing efforts, heroic.
Far less fortunate were more than 250 of the schools’ 1,500 students, the ones now buried in a mass grave at Ste. Trinité, barely 50 metres away from the makeshift classrooms to which small children have since returned."
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"Music returned to Ste. Trinité a few days later when Pocius retrieved a flute from the rubble. She played “Amazing Grace,” and by the following week the students were putting on a concert with what instruments they could salvage.
That gesture, affirming not just life but its sophisticated beauty, became a spark."
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(Source: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/haiti/article/825827--bringing-the-music-back-to-haiti#article)
Thank you for visiting Instrumental Change, Inc. ICI ("here", in French and Haitian Creole) is a non-profit charitable corporation dedicated to the support and development of musically enriched educational environments in economically challenged areas.
Our first area of empowerment is the Caribbean nation of Haiti, where we support several established programs (in Port-au-Prince, Leogane, Jacmel, Petion Ville, Cite Soleil, Tabarre, and La Plain), and will be supporting the establishment of two new state-of-the-art schools: a new National Conservatory (the evolution of the long-standing Ecole de Musique Sainte Trinite from Port-au-Prince), and a Caribbean University for the Arts at Jacmel, Haiti (CUAJH) (the evolution of the Ecole de Musique Dessaix Baptiste in Jacmel).
In the future, we hope to build upon successes within Haiti, and export the program to other third world areas and challenged areas in selected inner-city United States locations.
