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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Dec 21, 2014
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  December 20, 2014
  Book signing at Hofstra University photo credit: Garry Pierre-Pierre

  By Henry Beaucejour CEO of Haiti Tech of New-York

• Location : New York, NY, United States

Overview

• Investir et s’investir en Haiti: Un acte de foi, is the title of a riveting book recently released by author and entrepreneur Jerry Tardieu. After Port-au-Prince and North Miami, Tardieu chose New York as the third stop of his book tour. When I found out that the Harvard trained entrepreneur would be in New York for a book signing, I decided to attend.

  I was curious to meet the author whose recent book is being praised by critics and journalists in Haiti and abroad. More than the author, I wanted to meet the “engaged young citizen” who was able to galvanize the Haitian community of North Miami and Pétion-Ville a month before. I had seen the images on television and was quite surprised that a writer could draw such big crowds in a society often allergic to intellectual matters.

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