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Community Update: LCS Enhances Economics Curriculum
February 5, 2021
Louverture Cleary School (LCS), long recognized as one of the top education programs in Haiti, recently rolled out an enhanced economics and business curriculum—an initiative as exciting as it is important.
Josh Daly, a Regional Director with the Rhode Island Small Business Development Center, teaches an introductory business module to LCS students.
Economic growth is essential to a brighter future for Haiti, which is why Economics has been a capstone course for  Philo (US 12th grade + 1) students at LCS since 2012. With the help of Harvard economist N. Gregory Mankiw, who generously donated his first-year college economics text to our program, Economics at LCS has become extremely popular with LCS students, who appreciate understanding the very tangible implications of economics on their lives in Haiti.
Now, LCS is incorporating accounting and finance into the curriculum to provide the practical tools necessary to turn economic theory into economic growth. The finance and accounting curriculum was developed in partnership with Economic Growth Initiative for Haiti (EGI), which worked closely with LCS Economics Department Head Djim Guerrier (LCS ’14) to bolster the current instruction provided to LCS students through the addition of introductory modules taught by Djim and guest lecturers.
The first of these modules, an Introduction to Finance and Accounting, was made possible by the video conference system in the new Radia Laboratory of Science and Technology—itself a tremendous step forward that opens up a number of new learning opportunities for Louverturians.
LCS Economics Department Head Djim Guerrier and members of the Philo class participate in an introductory business module.
Reflecting on the first lesson, The Haitian Project's (THP) partners at EGI express their enthusiam for this new program:
We at EGI have been so pleased with the opportunity to deepen our partnership with THP and LCS to develop a robust business curriculum. To see that work start to come to fruition is a real delight. Even in the first sessions—done remotely through the new computer lab at LCS—students are engaged and eager to learn. Amidst a world turned upside down with the COVID-19 pandemic, through a great deal of hard work and persistence on all sides, we've been able to start something new and exciting together.
This is an exciting step for LCS in the use of the new computer lab, the growth of THP's partnership with its sister organization EGI, and continuing to provide a top-notch education to the students of LCS as they continue to work to make Haiti's better tomorrow a reality. 
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