Par Isseu Diouf Campbell and Winston Rodney
Myrline Belzince knows the value of education. If it wasn’t for the generosity of a stranger who paid her tuition for a private school in Haiti for seven years, she would have stayed home like many other girls whose parents can’t afford to send them to school.
Now, through her organization ROSE (Respect, Opportunity, Self-confidence and Education), she wants to help create promising futures for rural Haitian girls. On April 14, 2012, she held the first ROSE Campaign for girls annual gala at Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel in Queens.
During the benefit, she honored longtime Haitian educator Sister Marie Bruno, former principal of Collège Cœur Immaculé de Marie in Port-au-Prince. The ROSE organization’s Marie Bruno Scholarship Fund is named for the nun, who served as principal of the Port-au-Prince school for 20 years and also held a number of positions in other schools for Haitian women and girls.
For more information, visit roseforgirls.org.
Photos of the event
