The Consulate General of the Republic of Haiti in Chicago accompanied in Haiti, in late October the first mission of the United Council for Higher Education in Hait (UCHEH) an organization of Chicago, composed of Haitiano-Americans and Americans, most judges, lawyers, commissioners and other important personalities.

This delegation of the UCHEH, of 8 members, has benefited from the assistance and supervision of Consul Marie Gertrude J. Beauboeuf, on-site representative of the Consulate General of Chicago.

While in Haiti, members of the delegation of the UCHEH met Vanneur Pierre, the Minister of National Education, the Director-General and technical executives of the Ministry, the Director General of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and members of the Cabinet of the Minister.

They held meetings with the Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe and his Cabinet advisers, including Jean-Claude François his advisor in Education, which has invested heavily to make this mission a success.

The Rector of the State University of Haiti and the Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, the Rector of the University Quisqueya and the Secretary General also met with members of the delegation.

The members of the delegation went to Saint-Marc where they held an important meeting with the Deputy, the Mayor, the Vice-delegated, of representatives of the community and the notables of the city.

They visited a site belonging to the Haitian state, not far from the town of Saint Marc, which seems to meet the requirements for the construction, of multiple buildings to house a modern university complex, estimated at over 100 million U.S. dollars, that the organization intends to build in the region, as a tribute and recognition to the memory of Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, a Haitian born in Saint-Marc, in 1745, which is considered as the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago, Metis, son of a French sailor and a mother African slave, it comes from the French colony of Saint-Domingue, he established the first trading post on the present site of Chicago.

The delegation went back satisfied with its first mission in the country and intends to use the comments, suggestions and proposals of the authorities and various stakeholders met in Port-au-Prince and Saint Marc to further define the contours of this vast project and schedule and its second mission in Haiti, which must include the signature of official documents relating to this University Complex Project with the Haitian government.

HL/ HaitiLibre