Rachelle Laime, 1980 - 2010?
Security Guard (Haiti)
Ms Rachelle Laim¨¦, a national of Haiti, was a Security Guard for the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) since 2009.
Rachelle was born and brought up in Port-au-Prince. In 2000, she received her diploma from Coll¨¨ge Bellevue in Port-au-Prince. For the next few years, she studied to become a kindergarten teacher at the Ecole Normale de Carrefour in Port-au-Prince and obtained her teaching certificate. After working as a kindergarten teacher until 2004, she worked in a bursar¡¯s office.
For a few years before she joined the UN, Rachelle looked after her three children on a full-time basis and she used this time to pursue a secretarial course at EFTEC in Lalue, Port-au-Prince.
Her UN colleagues called her ¡°Rachelle Bon Bagay,¡± Creole for ¡°it¡¯s all good,¡± which they said meant that she essentially always did her best and that she had an entrepreneurial quality about her.
According to a friend, Rachelle felt it was important to be kind to everyone around her and ¡°she always had a nice word for everyone.¡±
Rachelle is remembered as having a calm demeanour and always smiling. ¡°She liked her work and actively participated in the success of her section,¡± a colleague added.
While Creole was Rachelle¡¯s mother tongue, she also spoke English, French and Spanish.
Rachelle was widowed and is survived by a son, Gilbert Christopher, 11 and three daughters, Emmanuella Royal, 6, Assandrine Royal, 4, and Sarafina Esther, an infant.