Haiti Here We Come!

From top left to right: Joan Rockwell, Bill Austin, Chris Farley,

                                      Marky Jean-Pierre, and Anne Perkins
















Husband-and-wife team Bill Austin, Architect, and Joan Rockwell, Landscape Architect, will be traveling this month with Marky Jean-Pierre, President of the Honor for Haiti Foundation (FONHOH), to the Caribbean island nation of Hispaniola. They will visit land that has been donated to FONHOH to build an educational center in rural Haiti.

Originally from Haiti, Marky Jean-Pierre is dedicated to the improvement in the country's educational system and is a founder of FONHOH, a not-for-profit organization based in both Amherst, Massachusetts and Bon-Repos, Haiti. The organization focuses on adult learning and literacy, language education, teacher education and K-12 school improvement in Haiti.

Austin Design and Joan Rockwell & Associates have been working on site analysis and schematic designs for the educational center. The trip will be an exciting mission to delve deeper and improve our understanding of this important project.

UMass Grad Aids His Native Haiti By Improving Educational Access