"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)
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