Despite a difficult socio-economic context, the Government intends to provide its support in order to facilitate the start of the school year, set for September 21, 2021 in 7 departments and October 4 in the Great South https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34648-haiti-flash-back-to-school-postponed-official.html strongly affected by the earthquake of August 14th https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34681-haiti-earthquake-latest-assessment-of-civil-protection.html

Monday, September 6 Marie Lucie Joseph, the Minister of National Education accompanied in particular by its Director General, Meniol Jeune, the Director of secondary education Maxime Mesilas and the Director of fundamental Thervil Pierrin, provided details on the actions envisaged by the State in order to support the educational community, especially parents, at the start of the 2021 school year.

Depending on the approach adopted, it is also a question of a public school being able to accommodate a non-public school and vice-and-versa. If the school is operating in the morning, the space can accommodate the other school in the afternoon, while waiting. These are some of the ministry's proposals to deal with the extremely difficult situation after the earthquake of August 14, 2021.

In summary, it emerges that the State will be present with families in order to alleviate the burden of the start of the new school year : subsidy for schooling, provision of school books, school kits, uniforms, psycho-social support, teacher training. figure, among others, among the interventions planned by the Government, through the ministry, in order to support the educational agents and especially the parents who are decapitalized, explained the Minister Joseph.

In addition, the Minister indicated that the operations of demolition and clearing of school sites have started, in order to prepare the ground for the construction of temporary reception structures for the pupils. Adding that a meeting is scheduled this week with donors.

In addition, Marie Lucie Joseph insisted on the reminder of certain provisions concerning the governance of the education system, in particular of public schools. No authorization for the opening of new classrooms and/or new schools, the ban on outsourcing of lessons, the limitation of class sizes in public schools, in particular high schools of the Republic.

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34681-haiti-earthquake-latest-assessment-of-civil-protection.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34648-haiti-flash-back-to-school-postponed-official.html

S/ HaitiLibre