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In 1975, La Vallee was cut off from the rest of the country because of bad road conditions. The Valleens pulled together and took action. There were no health-care programs, hospitals, schools for the poor, educational programs, electricity, telephones, drinkable water, or technical assistance for agricultural needs.

On Saturdays with help from hundreds of volunteers working with hand tools like shovels, axes, picks and wheel barrels, they worked on improving the roads. That local movement led to a more structured organization in 1976 with the creation of CODEVA (Coude?a?coude pour le Development de La Vallee).

Open Market - Built by CODEVAThey eventually built a small hospital, each villager had to bring the biggest rock they could carry and a bucket of sand - three primary schools, the Lycee Phillipe Jules – where a poor student can receive the entire secondary school education, and a public market. This community effort came with a price -- Professor Aubies Franck and other leaders suffered political consequences for wanting to bring change.

One of them, Phillipe Jules, died from complications of a car accident while volunteering.

Lycee Phillipe Jules - Built by CODEVAMembers of CODEVA include elected officials as well as ordinary citizens whose one goal is to make La Vallee a place to be proud of, and that future generations of La Vallee de Jacmel and other communities of Haiti inherit an infrastructure, which includes adequate health?care access, education and economical development, as well as a clean environment.

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