In a note, Marie Marguerite B. Clérié President of the Professional Association of Private Schools (APEP-FEV) and Vice President Roody Edmé, appeal to all sectors that are mobilized every day for change in Haiti..

"We call on State leaders to measure the intensity of a crisis with far-reaching consequences for the Nation and to take all the necessary measures with courage and abnegation.

"We are launching a patriotic call to the private sector so that beyond their differences of interests or ideological they decide to rethink the relationship to wealth in our country [...]

"We call on churches to play a more active role, as in the past, in the dark hours of national life, for a solution based on peace, unity and national understanding.

"We are asking the Haitian people, justly angry at so many inequalities and injustices to show restraint during the demonstrations that are guaranteed by the Constitution. By protecting lives and property, you will have shown the world that we are a great people...

APEP-FEV reminds us that it is possible to mobilize for change "without destroying the little that remains" and "our heritage, acquired in the sweat of all".

The Association emphasizes that we all have a responsibility in all that is played for the future of Haiti, warning that in the current state of social disintegration and blindness of angry crowds, we can all be victims, supporters or opponents.

Concluding "We all need to get off our ivory tower to be more supportive. We need responsible political leaders, concerned about our collective well-being to remove the specter of anarchy and civil war [...]

Long live to a quality education for all the sons and daughters of the Motherland, for a renewed and united Haiti. Long live to an united Haiti in peace and democracy against all forms of exclusion and poverty."

HL/ HaitiLibre