b'Fine art and jewelryLive musicKids activitiesLocal merchants Students in their classroom at the school in La Saline. OCTOBER 17, 2021, 11am to 5pmbut the Lord blessed us, and then wewould not be able to go to school ex-MAPLEWOOD VILLAGE began helping others too. cept for what we did there. She eventually found her calling inSeveral years ago, the women, who ARTWALK Haiti, a place, she says, where as des- hadraisedandgivenmoneytosup-perate as they are, you dont need a lotportitall of money to make a big difference. Ithoseyears, PRESENTING SPONSOR: & MUSIC FEST foundthesatisfactionofgiving,shepasseditoff Jen Lieberman Homes says at another point, to someone whototheNew SPONSORED BY: has nothing to give you in return butJerseychap-Mark Slade Homes, Maplewood Division of Arts & Culture, Maker + Muse, Mona Lisa Framing their gratitude. She started small, withterofHai-a sister, and together they raised fundstianAmeri-for a woman running a mission there. candoctors, Thatledtoamuchbiggeridea.knownas Her best friend at Rutgers Law SchoolAMHE. The was Yanick de Vastey, a wealthy Hai- doctorsgot tian who had lived much of her lifemoremoneyBarnett wrote and self-published this volume abroad. Together with de Vastey andthanme,ofpoetry.some of her sisters, all of whom hadsaysBarnett successfulcareers,Barnettbecamewith a laugh, explaining that, especial-determined to set up a school in onely after the devastating earthquake of of Port Au Princes poorest neighbor- 2010, it had become impossible for the hoods, La Saline, a slum that becametwo women to raise and give the mon-notorious in 2018 when armed gangsey necessary to keep the school afloat.murdered at least 71 of its citizens, in- ThatdoesnotmeanthatBarnett cluding women and children, in whatis done. She now supports three other the Harvard Law School Internationalschoolsandsixfamiliesthroughher Human Rights Clinic called a state- charitable foundation, Pro Bono Mis-sanctioned massacre.sions. I may not be able to do much, Barnett had long been aware of itsshe explains, but if everybody could horrors.WhendeVasteyvisited30just do a little bit, it would make a huge yearsagotohandpickthe40chil- difference in the lives of a few people, drenwhowouldstartattheschool,and we trust that if youre changing a she found children without shoes orfew lives, they will change a few lives.clothes, parents who had to give theirSheknowsthatforsure.Ithap-children to other families to raise (andpenedtoher,LorrainefromRutgers work) because they could not afford toStreet. feed them. Against all odds, the wom- Tia Swanson was awed by the generosity, en not only kept the school going forfaith and humility of Lorraine Barnett. decades but grew it. Today it educatesGiftstoherfoundationcanbesentto 500.Itsworthgold,saysBarnett,Pro Bono Missions, P.O. Box 647, South to see the faces of the children whoOrange, NJ 07079.16/ matters magazine / fall 2021'