Guns and gangs make going to school an impossible dream for Haitian children

The last time Fada Pierre went to 10th grade school, her mother was clinging to the roof of the school building and crying.

The parents called him to pick up their children, they were approached by armed men who shouted loudly. Then everyone ran for their lives. FAIDA was completed alone.

FADA “It was brave,” people ran from the building. People were attacked by gangs in their neighborhood, so children were trying to get to the attic.

That was a year ago and about 500,000 other children, who were in the third grade, stopped going to school in the third grade.

Their education and future prospects are outlined, Haitian children are a group of abused people victims of abusive marriages victims of abused people.

Many schools were closed because they were in gang-occupied areas. More than one million people, that is 10 percent of the country’s population, left their homes – they left their homes during the thugs in their communities.

In February, last February, the United Nations, which monitors the number of children as a unity, after the release of the controversy, government and school buildings can even monitor the number of parents. Not going to school.

Even families whose schools are open are unable to enroll their children because they do not have money for school fees, uniforms and supplies. Most children in Haiti attend private schools, but public schools charge entry fees for many families whose homes and businesses have burned to the ground.

At the same time, tens of thousands of children left the high schools in many communities to work in the poor Port-Prince in Haiti.

Schools have to deal with the number of teachers and their resources in schools, but many were killed or left the country. According to government officials, Haitian schools have lost a quarter of their teachers.

In addition to the educational losses, being out of school makes the most vulnerable groups more vulnerable to serious harm in their lives. Experts guess Up to half of the criminal members They are old.

At the end of the 2023-24 school year in the Port-Place Port-Prince department, 10,000 students from last year showed the final exams of the government. As a result, the authorities estimate that around 130,000 students, mainly in the capital, dropped 13 points from the 14th annual school in the last school term.

Officials say they don’t have to do a full assessment of how many students failed this year.

FAADA may not go to school, but she lives in one. Fada’s father was killed in a gang attack. Her mother, she and her face were following about 5,000 people in the school of Waziriri Eni.

The New York Times and the photographer in Fayda school, her face and her mother’s drawn passport were sleeping in the mustonis and in the rain water in the carefree washroom.

“She sometimes wakes up at night and screams,” said Mr. Boss. “She asks when she goes to school.”

Woodley Bregum, 17, and 15-year-old Sadera Dedaki were also there and had been there for more than a year.

Sardon dreams of becoming a police officer to enter the police environment, but she left school after the eighth grade. Waudlele, who missed the 10th grade, wants to become an auto mechanic.

Twelve people sleep in the classroom.

My first priority is to study with people who are older than me, who say, ‘If you want to be a mechanic, you should go back to school.’ he said. My family doesn’t have money to send me to mechanic school. “

His mother, Irelia Epennyo Dania, but she lives in the childhood shop and home generation group, the mother of four children found shelter instead of studying.

“School? That’s not a priority,” she said. “My priority is the need to live. The main priority for parents in Haiti right now is how to live.”

UNICEF has worked with the Haitian government to provide financial assistance to needy families, but their priority is to ensure that their children are enrolled in school, and many parents are not eligible for assistance.

Bruno Males, who recently left as the head of UNICEF in Haiti, admitted that there is not enough money to help all families, but he said that many children go to school without help.

The educational situation was complicated, mainly with 100,000 students in the main city to the south of the stable capital.

But schools were not a place for them. Many students sit with the clothes they give to their heroes, birth certificates, school transcripts or other documents that show which grades they got.

“You have a lack of documents, which forces them to flee and then they don’t have seats in schools, then Mr. Males can’t sit anywhere. The issues that affect many children are huge.”

The puzzles are high: the number of children counted in the last year It has increased by 70 percent. It is common to see 7 year olds working as group search experts.

Janine Monana, who investigates disarmament for Amnesty International, said that the young members of the criminal gangs arrested for the upcoming rumor in Haiti have joined with the financial desperation. Gangs often offer a small monthly payment or allow young members to wait for the change after the costumes.

None of the interviewees were in school.

We know that you can keep the children active and protect the schools and that “Mr. Moriki” can protect the schools. “We’re talking about children who are idle – sometimes trapped in their homes or detention centers without the opportunity to enrich and play.”

If you’re outside of school, it’s more attractive, he said.

Haitian officials say they are committed to reforming the education system as a key step in stabilizing the country. The aim is to ensure that the early results are free and to provide families with guardians and books to make schools more capable.

In addition, government schools rent buildings to accommodate students who have found shelters.

“Haiti invests a lot in education,” said the Ethiopian Minister of Education.

Some of the schools in Port-Place-Prince reopened in the fall, but with fewer students, says Anne Louis Suns, the official associate of the Minister of Education who runs schools in that area.

Haiti has been in turmoil since 2021, when the last elected president was killed. Last year, gangs were caught in coordinated attacks on police stations, hospitals and entire neighborhoods. With the police departments – many officers have used our human rights parale visa – the government has struggled to hold the logic.

After November, Port-Prince Airport was closed after gang members opened fire on a commercial airliner. The international force, built by the administration of the office and mostly Kenyan police officers, did not stop long to release their malaria grip on the capital.

At least the United Nations 5,600 people In the year By 2024, they are about 25 percent.

“Now the situation is that many schools are closed, they have to close private schools, they even have to close private schools,” he said.

Mrs. Eperonbor’s backup plan is to live with the family so that she can study with the school at the end. The daughter tried to go back to school a few weeks ago, but the gangsters kept him.

“I feel like this is going to destroy her, her daughter who is still running away hoping to start the 10th grade.” And it makes me sad. “

Andre Park Reported from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.