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- NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
- NEWS_POSTED_ON: Jan 02, 2015
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- Category : Haiti News
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Photo: Nephtaly with fellow HELP students, Witchelle Charles and Anne-Martine Augustin after addressing the delegation at the Haitian youth forum "Elan Ayiti".
- Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
- Phone : (646) 485-8667
- Email : info@uhelp.net
- Website : http://uhelp.net
Overview
Having the fortune to be raised by a single-mother who emphasized the importance of education, Nephtaly Pierre-Louis (Economics 2017) seized every educational opportunity that came his way.
In primary and secondary school he excelled in all his classes, allowing him to attend the best schools in his home city of Jérémie on Haiti’s south-western peninsula. But it was not until he was accepted to HELP and began the leadership class that he was able to fully appreciate the values of civic responsibility and social entrepreneurship and their potential to transform his country.
“Young people need to be made aware of how to engage with their community and the world of work,” he says.” We currently lack the framework to develop our potential and are too much like robots. We should be striving to be job creators not just job seekers.”
This interest in policy has lead Nephtaly to seek opportunities to precipitate change amongst his peers. Browsing the Opportunity Desk website this past June, Nephtaly came across a six month internship as a blogger for “Voices of Youth” founded by UNICEF in 1995, and after consulting with his HELP advisor he applied and was selected for the position. Nephtaly considers it a privilege to be the sole representative of Haiti amongst the 30 interns.