By her nephew Colbert Bien-Aimé fils
Lyna Jean-Baptiste worked as a teacher, first at the catholic school : “Sacré Coeur de Turgeau” in Port-au-Prince, then at the public school Simone Ovide Duvalier and at the Sisters school of Cabaret. She taught with great patience which helped her educate and shape thousands of children in Port-au-Prince as well as Cabaret.
As a teacher, Lyna played a very important role in the advancement of the community of Cabaret. In collaboration with her sister, Mrs Colbert Bien-Aimé, she created an organization called C.R.E.P.O.F ( Centre de Recherches pour la Promotion Feminine) which translates to : Center of Research for Feminine Advancement. This organization helped many young women learn a trade such as sewing or cooking.
Furthermore, Lyna and Mrs Colbert also created a public mill, which was destined for rice and corn and thus helped farmers husk their rice and transform the corn they produced in their gardens into ground corn.
Lyna continued to work as a teacher at the Sisters school in Cabaret until her retirement in the 80’s. After her retirement she emigrated to Boston in the United states where she died on July 14th, 2013 at 97 years old.
