RUMSON: A TETE-A-TETE WITH TEBO, AT RFH

Nov 18, 2016

Haitian Artist David “Tebo” Thebaud (center) is pictured with Rumson-Fair Haven Regional seniors Madeline and Theo de Quillacq, who served as Student Ambassadors during his recent visit to RFH.

Press release from Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School

He radiates positive energy and endless creativity, and his biggest dream is to help young people with talent realize their own potential. His name is David Thebaud – or Tebo, as he is best-known in his native Haiti – and he arrived at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School on November 14, to meet once again with his biggest supporters.

As he did during his previous visit in 2014, Tebo spoke with students in French and Art classes at RFH. The students learned about Tebo’s creative process, life in present-day Haiti, and the challenges facing his art school, ELT. The students were especially eager to know more about ELT, whose full name in Creole – Espwa lavi pou Timoun – translates into “Hope for Children’s Lives.”

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November 18, 2016 - 5:00 am |

RUMSON: ART FOR HAITI EVENT AT CANVAS

Nov 11, 2016

Canvas hosts a return visit by a Haitian artist who’s again raising funds after a natural disaster. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

For the second time in two years, Canvas Studio Art in Rumson will once again host an informal meet and greet with Haitian artist David Thebaud.

Scheduled for Monday afternoon, the event marks a return to the West River Road space for the co-founder of the ELT Art School in Haiti, who last appeared here in 2014 as part of a benefit event for victims of the devastating 2010 earthquake. (As detailed here on redbankgreen, the celebrated painter known as “Tebo” also paid a visit to Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School).

Now, the Caribbean island nation is again reeling from the effects of a natural disaster — Hurricane Matthew. And as Tebo explains, the Haitian people are now more than ever in desperate need of clean water, food and other necessities.

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November 11, 2016 - 5:01 am |

A WHOLE LOTTA DOING GOOD FOR OTHERS

Oct 10, 2012

Local folks gathered Thursday at Red Bank Family EyeCare to support their efforts for helping Haiti’s eyes.

By DANIELLE TEPPER

RED BANK
Thursday, October 4: Red Bank Family EyeCare Open House

Done1 Tyrone Choate, optical manager at Red Bank Family EyeCare, spent all of July volunteering at Cap Haitian Eye Center in Haiti, where he was inspired to apply what he learned at home before turning around and bringing something right back.

The doctor there really impacted me, said Choate. He wasnt doing it for the money, but out of the goodness of his heart.

The CHEC operates solely on donations, so Choate worked together with Dr. Erin Curtis to organize last week’s open house. Their goal was to raise at least $2,640, which is what it costs to sustain the Haitian clinic for one month. The night raised $2,000 from over 150 people and a portion of all eyeglass sales will be donated throughout the month of October to reach the grand total needed.

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October 10, 2012 - 9:24 am |

FUNDRAISERS BRING WARMTH TO AREA

Feb 3, 2011

Buzz, Woody and the gang are back for one more big-screen adventure, when TOY STORY 3 returns for a special showing at Clearview Cinemas to benefit Bridge of Books.

Done2 While wobbling and shivering across the frozen tundra of what can only be called Red Bank Greenland, you’d do good to bear in mind that in the Caribbean, the sun is shining and the thermometer is expected to hit the low to mid 80s. And you’ll have Done Good to bear in mind that in Haiti, the hard-hit victims of last year’s earthquake are still in need of a helping hand.

One is being extended to the beleaguered nation from Red Bank’s own Pilgrim Baptist Church. From now until Wednesday, February 16, the Haiti Relief, Recovery and Restoration Initiative of Red Bank (in partnership with Aslan Youth Ministries) is seeking donations of school supplies everything from pencils, erasers, crayons and rulers to composition books and solar calculators for distribution to elementary school students in Ouanaminthe, Haiti. The small northeastern city will be the site of a groundbreaking for a new community medical clinic, and a Mission Work Team from the Initiative will be delivering the school supplies when they travel to Ouanaminthe on the week of February 21-27.

You can drop off donated items at Pilgrim Baptist (172 Shrewsbury Avenue); you can learn more about the Mission Work Team trip by calling Bernadette Marshall or Pastor Terrence Porter at (732)747-2348 and you can brace yourself for another seasonal blast of Done Good action, right around the corner.

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February 3, 2011 - 7:47 am |

RED BANK STILL HELPING HAITI

Mar 26, 2010

Red Bank isn’t done showing its support for Haiti just yet.

More than two months after the earthquake that devastated the Caribbean nation, locals are again rallying to provide relief.

“Helping Haiti,” a community benefit concert sponsored by Pilgrim Baptist Church, will be held at 6p Saturday at the auditorium at Red Bank Middle School.

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March 26, 2010 - 12:14 pm |

RED BANK USING SOLE MUSIC TO HELP HAITI

Mar 2, 2010

Donation bins like this one can be found at all Red Bank schools in a campaign to collect shoes for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi)

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI

Face it, you’ve been staring at that cluster of shoes in the closet for a long time now. You’ve only worn them a couple times since you bought them and you need to make space.

Red Bank’s students have a place to put them that’s a lot better than chucking them in the garbage.

They’ve also put their ideas for a couple of concerts in motion to do the same thing they hope to do with old shoes: help out the victims of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti.

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March 2, 2010 - 6:30 am |