Students and Faculty together bringing Hope to Haiti

My name is Marc Compere.  I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Embry-Riddle University.  My wife, Shannon, and I are really enjoying the Haiti Summer Project.  Shannon has been on staff with Campus Crusade for 19 years.

The students are from all over the US, but one student, Darick Alvarez, joined us from Embry-Riddle.  He and I build a small solar powered water purification unit.  The combination of professors and students traveling overseas together is incredible.  Faculty are able to gain access to overseas universities and prepare the way for students.  The students bring all their energy and enthusiasm and curiosity, plus they add capacity both from a work standpoint and also a relational standpoint when meeting new college students in-country.

I will send more posts now to catch this blog up with the facebook postings I’ve been making up to now…

Marc