MIAMI — A mom guarding her family’s treasured historical past ideas to share it with the earth next 7 days.
CBS Information Miami
Alexanda Jeanty-LeClerc, a mom of three who is a trainer by trade, reported education and learning is her passion.
Just after coming to South Florida from Haiti at 13 a long time outdated, Minimal Haiti is now her house and she is arranging a lecture that she hopes will reshapes views on Haitian heritage.
“I am all set to share it with the world,” she claimed. “I think it is really pretty vital to the world to the planet to see that Haitians are on their ft mainly because regardless of what transpires in Haiti impacts everyone else all around the world. It is not only Haiti but it impacts people who are listed here. Haitians who are in Canada. Haitians who are in France.”
May well is Haitian Heritage Thirty day period and Jeanty-LeClerc’s presentation is scheduled for May well 17 at Miami-Dade College’s Wolfson campus Creating 1 at 10:45 a.m.
In Haiti, 1000’s are fleeing raging gang violence and struggles to uncover foods.
With heritage thirty day period total of tricky-luck headlines, Jeanty-LeClerc’s household thinks their tie to a composer whose impression seems on stamps, the story of how he received there and what that story does for his descendants could inspire folks.
“If points had been superior (in Haiti), I feel factors would be greater for the planet in every aspect,” she stated.
Her excellent-wonderful uncle is Occide Jeanty, the composer who historians credit history with composing Haiti’s initial anthem in 1893. Household tales counsel that Jeanty did it in a person evening.
Even to this day, the composition stays aspect of the country’s presidential salute.
That constructive contribution to record has long been a resource of household power, Jeanty-LeClerc mentioned.
It can be discussed generally. It also has also presented Alexandra a everyday living-prolonged perception of belonging no make a difference where by she lives.
“When you have somebody of this sort of worth in your family you want the youthful folks to know and to don’t forget in which you appear from,” Jeanty-LeClerc claimed. “So it was generally shared in a way that was incredibly specific.”
Her father talked about sharing the story till he died.
Shortly after, Jeanty-LeClerc’s cousins in New York and Haiti agreed that Alexandra need to explain to the earth about their ancestor in the hope of inspiring others with similarly guarded household historic treasures to share and remind men and women of constructive Haitian achievements.
“This (tale of the anthem) is not ours,” Jeanty-LeClerc claimed. “It belongs to the nation. I seriously hope that other Haitians as you say people that have treasures (and) we have so lots of treasures, (I just want) them to share it. Present the splendor of our nation, the magnificence of our men and women, our bravery.”
