Some words by the president                                       

 
 

 

  

         Dear fellow members and friends ,

                                                     Haiti , yesterday . Chile today .

War after war , we can take action and find ways to prevent and avoid wars ; disease after disease , we can discover medical responds and prevent devastating diseases  ; fears after fears ,we can screen the illusions and exorcise the persistent fears .

But what about an earthquake ? 

Such a different scale and such a different tragedy ; there is no technical issue to avoid it .

What we can set is a better use of our human resources , by thinking and planning  a long term more sustainable rebuilding .

Our Tampa Bay ‘ French Alliances which reacted positively and quickly in the Haiti emergeny ‘situation did their best : maybe a drop in an ocean of needs ; surely a miserable fight against the consequences of non end ‘ natural disasters  ; but an honorable commitment we would like to follow up with our Haitians friends of Tampa Bay .

By the way , from a perspective of cultural policy , we had to be “exemplaires “ ( 300.000 French people / 800.000 Haitian people in the USA ; please make the maths of the French language in the USA for the  next generation…)

and we were “exemplaires “ ! Not in speech but in action .

Thanks again to everyone !

Despite what we heard : Chile is like Haiti ;a natural disaster is always an human tragedy ; we empathize the pain and the suffering of their peoples .

How many of our students are native from this South America which admires our French enlightment ‘ philosophy ?

Once again it’s not time to quote Voltaire or Camus about earthquake or disease but to trust people who cares of people !                        

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