JEAN DESPERATE FOR NEWS FROM COLLAPSED ARTS CENTRE
WYCLEF JEAN is desperate for good news about the arts school his Yele fou= ndation built in his native Haiti - because the entire site was crushed b= y an earthquake last week (12Jan10) and he fears all the students and tea= chers are dead.
The Yele Center was less than a year old when it collapsed during the 7= ..0-magnitude earthquake, which shook Haiti, and Jean, who visited his hom= eland at the weekend, admits he fears the worst.
He says, "As of now… everyone passed away.
"The idea of a school collapsing… and every kid in the school, includ= ing the teachers, just completely wiped out is unheard of." The school was responsible for a special line of T-shirts, sold in Timb= erland stores across America.
Jean explains, "These artists did these incredible T-shirts that were i= n Timberland stores all around the world. It was Haiti on a Timberland T-= shirt."
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