{"id":17698,"date":"2024-05-17T00:43:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T00:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-54-86-215-170.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/fokal-honored-by-sant-la\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T12:56:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:56:52","slug":"fokal-honored-by-sant-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/betatest.fokal.org\/index.php\/en\/2024\/05\/17\/fokal-honored-by-sant-la\/","title":{"rendered":"FOKAL honored by &#8220;Sant La&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, serif; font-size: revert;\">May 4<\/span><sup style=\"font-family: Inter, serif;\">th<\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Inter, serif; font-size: revert;\">, 2024 \u2013 <\/span><em style=\"font-family: Inter, serif; font-size: revert;\">Sant La<\/em><span style=\"font-family: Inter, serif; font-size: revert;\"> Philanthropic Gala<\/span><\/p>\n<p>FOKAL is honored to receive this award from <em>Sant La<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I wish Lorraine and I, and our wonderful team, could be there with you and speak to the public in person about the exceptional relationship that, for the past decades, is being nurtured between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/santlahaitian\/\"><em>Sant La<\/em><\/a> and FOKAL.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commitment, engagement, are not just words neither for FOKAL nor for <em>Sant<\/em> <em>La<\/em>. When we speak of being engaged in our communities, committed to processes of enfranchisement, of learning, of sharing, of solidarity, of empathy, we are talking about a common vision of who we are as a people, and the values of respect and dignity that are grounded in our line of action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And we also share the joy of being together whenever we have a chance to meet whether in Haiti or in Miami. I have fond memories of our meetings in Cap Haitian with cohorts of fellows listening with attention to our conversations about Haiti\u2019s history and culture, and about FOKAL\u2019s programs dedicated to upholding and promoting what Haiti really is: its creativity, its capacity to resist in adverse conditions, its continued struggle to survive and be free.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How not to evoke Leonie\u2019s contagious laugh that always brings humor in the discussion, and Gepsy\u2019s beautiful smile reaffirming our complicity, their constant presence, the importance of their work in keeping <em>Sant La <\/em>a safe and learning place, a collective endeavor to serve the community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On behalf of FOKAL\u2019s Board and Staff, I want to communicate our heartfelt thanks to <em>Sant La<\/em> and reiterate that we are profoundly honored by this award. Thank you, dear Arielle Dominique, for accepting the award on our behalf. Wout la long men nap mache ansanm pou nou w\u00e8 sol\u00e8y leve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wishing <em>Sant La<\/em> a long and prosperous life!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Mich\u00e8le Duvivier Pierre-Louis<\/em><br \/><em>President of FOKAL<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 4th, 2024 \u2013 Sant La Philanthropic Gala FOKAL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nos-programmes-nouvel-fokal-2-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/betatest.fokal.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/betatest.fokal.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/betatest.fokal.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betatest.fokal.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betatest.fokal.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/betatest.fokal.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18393,"href":"http:\/\/betatest.fokal.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17698\/revisions\/18393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betatest.fokal.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/betatest.fokal.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betatest.fokal.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betatest.fokal.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}