MTB - Chat ak Sourit

Chat ak Sourit (The Cat & the Mouse) A Mother Tongue Books selection from Haiti

Chat ak Sourit (The Cat and the Mouse) is a wonderful children's book, with built in testing, written by the First Grade class at the Baptist Masikren School, Masikren, Lagonav, Haiti.

This application was developed by Dimitri from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Dimitri is an intern in the Development Internship component of ACP's Open Educational Resources Development Program (http://aconnectedplanet.org/projects/intern-project).

The book is part of a collection from Mother Tongue Books which is a program at the Matenwa Community Learning Center (http://matenwaclc.org/) on Lagonav. Mother Tongue Books and the Matenwa Community Learning Center are supported by the Friends of Matenwa (http://www.friendsofmatenwa.org/).

Chat ak Sourit was originally written in Haitian Creole and has been translated into French and English. Audio in all three languages is provided in the application. The Matènwa Community Learning Center provided the Haitian Creole recordings for the application.

A Connected Planet Foundation (ACP) converted the book, developed and built in testing into the application. Virtually no applications exist in Haitian Creole. So ACP has started building its own applications. ACP’s focus is on education apps for young Haitian children. Look for ACP’s other applications about numbers, colors & shapes, fruits & vegetables and animals. ACP’s staff and volunteers include professionals from the Academic, Education, Computer Science, Business, Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Speech Language Pathology sectors.