Environmental Stewardship at Louverture Cleary School
In a country lacking the infrastructure and capacity to support a sanitation system, Louverture Cleary students prepare recyclables with a commitment to environmental stewardship.
With an education and a commitment to sharing their talents with others, Louverture Cleary graduates are equipped with the tools to escape the threat of poverty AND be good environmental stewards of their country.
Each day, the Louverture Cleary community responsibly manages waste through composting, recycling, re-use, burying, and incineration. Through being active participants in environmental stewardship while on campus, Louverture Cleary students are constantly learning how caring for the environment benefits the world around them.
The campus community brings Netwayaj (daily cleanup hour) into the surrounding neighborhood to share the value of environmental stewardship. The school’s gardens of trees, flowers, and various fruits and vegetables are tended with rich dirt resulting from the robust composting activity that puts to good use the byproducts of nourishing a community 475+ strong.
Salomon A. (left), Louverture Cleary alumnus class of 1998 and founding partner of Haitian solar company Energy Central, installing solar panels with a technician on the roof of the Louverture Cleary School Radia Laboratory of Science and Technology.
Louverture Cleary School also fosters lifelong lessons for its community members that reach beyond campus. Students regularly give back to their home communities on the weekends, sharing what they have learned with siblings and neighbors. Many have formed groups that meet and pick up trash together. These lasting habits have been known to return home with US Missionary Volunteers as well, who after a year or more at Louverture Cleary School, find they have a greater awareness of their environmental impact.
Louverture Cleary School was also a trailblazer in implementing large-scale solar energy in Haiti and remains a solar-powered school.
These green initiatives along with other sustainable technologies will be integral to each of the nine new schools of the Louverture Cleary Schools Network.