Haitian Flag Day celebrated at Binghamton City Hall
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BINGHAMTON (WBNG) Mayor Richard C. David joined members of the Southern Tier Haitian Association at Binghamton City Hall in honor of Haitian Flag Day.
Haitian Flag Day is celebrated every May 18 in honor of the creation and adoption of the flag, as well as the revolution for their freedom from the French.
The members of the Southern Tier Haitian Association (STHA) is an organization of volunteers who came together in 2018 to unite, inform, and provide sensible solutions.
Their goal is to empower others in their community, and to help people understand Haitian culture.
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Photo: WFP/Alexis Masciarelli, primary school children eat their hot meal in their classroom at the Catherine Flon state school, in the city of Jeremie, Haiti. ROME – The COVID-19 pandemic risks reversing a decade of hard-won gains in global efforts to provide nutritious food to the world’s most vulnerable children through a free daily meal in school, the United Nations World Food Programme said in a report released today.
One in two schoolchildren, or 388 million children worldwide, were receiving school meals when the pandemic struck, the highest number in history, according to the State of School Feeding Worldwide report. By April 2020, 199 countries had closed their schools and 370 million children were suddenly deprived of what for many was their only nutritious meal of the day.
The theme for the short films is What does Haitian Flag Day mean to you? Selected shorts will be showcased virtually on Haitian Flag Day on May 18, 2021.