Helping to Improve School in Haiti

Ms. Caty Silhan, daughter of Medford Elementary School's band teacher, Mr. Joseph Silhan,
 traveled to the small village of Milot in northern Haiti to help construct two classrooms and a library.
 Eben Ezer Elementary School was founded in 2001 by Lucia Anglade, a Haitian immigrant who lives in
West Babylon and is a school bus driver for a private company.  Using some savings, Lucia built
Eben Ezer Elementary School in Milot, the village of her youth, to help children (many of them
orphans), who could not pay to attend the only school within walking distance.  With an initial
student population of ten students, the school has grown to over eighty-five students and was in
need of expansion.  Caty Silhan, along with four other Long Islanders associated with North
Shore United Methodist Church in Wading River, flew to Haiti and helped build the classrooms
and library needed for this needy elementary school.  They hope to return next year to help
build a junior high school in the same village.

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