In ruined Haiti schools, educators see opportunity

03-02-2010

By Jonathan M. Katz/Associated Press

After seven weeks with seven kids huddled under a shelter of tarps and bed sheets on the median strip of a busy road, Lissithe Delomme says the Haitian government can't reopen schools fast enough. "If they would open right now I'd be pretty happy," she said, trying to ignore the tumult of two of her boys wrestling as she fried up a batch of plantains for sale. "They're just sitting around doing nothing." The Jan. 12 quake dealt a devastating blow to Haiti's already struggling schools: More than 80 percent in the earthquake zone were damaged or destroyed. All in Port-au-Prince and the other affected towns remain closed, and with tens of thousands of bored and restless children living in increasingly squalid encampments, patience is growing short. (more...)

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