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Everyone was all smiles during the
October 2012 groundbreaking ceremony.
Photo: Felicia Hsu
New Life for Durocher
New Hope for Solino
Colin Legerton
he neighborhood of Solino, one of the But there was a silver lining in the rubble
poorest in Haiti, is home to just one that day. The horrific earthquake sowed the
Tpreschool and kindergarten: Centre seeds of a connection between Tzu Chi and
Préscolaire Carmen René Durocher. When National Association of Guides in Haiti (ANGH)
the earthquake struck on January 12, 2010, it and set the stage for the Durocher school to be
toppled the school’s walls and nearly deprived rebuilt, bigger and better than ever before.
the neighborhood’s children of their best
opportunity for a bright future.
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