PORT-AU-PRINCE — The Ministry of Ladies Situation and of Ladies’s Rights (MCFDF) paid tribute to Catherine Flon, the shero who sewed the pink and blue flag, to have a good time her 250th birthday on Might 17 and commemorate Haitian Flag Day.
“On today we should have a particular thought for Catherine Flon who sewed our flag that symbolizes the logo of our battle in opposition to slavery,” Minister of Ladies Situation Sofia Loreus advised The Haitian Occasions.
“Because of Catherine Flon’s braveness and exhausting work, the nation has its personal id which is its flag,” Loreus mentioned, declaring that UNESCO has agreed to place Flon’s 250th birthday in its 2022 and 2023 calendar.
In a society the place ladies’s rights are nonetheless poorly addressed, ladies’s work isn’t valued. Loreus selected to honor Flon’s work but additionally to boost the awanrness of younger schoolgirls. 9 grade ladies of Lycee of Carrefour Feuilles had been invited to the occasion and to participate within the parade. Carrying pink or blue T-shirts, they walked steps harking back to these of the indigenous military led by the founding father of the nation Jean-Jacques Dessalines.
They marched with the minister and a band between Magny and Capois streets and had been shouting: “Catherine sewed our flag, allow us to sew our nation collectively.”
“I’ll name on the federal government to position the memorials of those ladies alongside the heroes of independence,” Loreus mentioned.
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