Baker University students go to Haiti January 26, 2012
Baker University student Molly Schmeidler, of Hays, took these photos during a recent two and a half week interterm course. Eleven Baker students took the class in Haiti.
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Baker students interact with the kindergarten class offered at Ecole Shalom, the school located on the Haitian-American Caucus's compound we stayed on in Croix des Bouquets, a village outside of Port-au-Prince.
Baker University senior Jessica Shiney (left, from Louisburg) and junior Madison Mater (right, from Eudora) saw individual pieces of rebar used during the construction of new classrooms for Ecole Shalom.
Baker University senior Jessica Shiney holds a dove, released during a remembrance ceremony acknowledging the January 12th, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti.
Baker University senior Tyler Stephenson, of Johnson, plays with children at an orphanage in Croix des Bouquets, Haiti.
Baker University senior Molly Schmeidler, of Hays, smoothes out the cement of the foundation for the future construction of four new classrooms for Ecole Shalom, the primary school located in Croix des Bouquets, Haiti.
Baker University senior Sydney Pemberton engages with members of Ecole Shalom's kindergarten class during recess.
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