Lessons from Haiti: Schools after the earthquake
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Nearly ten months after Haiti's devastating earthquake that killed thousands and left 1.5 million homeless, not much has improved. But people are working to change that.
In Port-au-Prince today, tent cities abound, rubble litters the streets… 48% of children went to school before the earthquake, and now that number is significantly less. The official start date for school this fall was October 4th, and many schools have yet to open. There are, however, people who are working to make life better for the vast numbers of youth currently living in tent camps. Producer Amanda Thieroff reports from Port-au-Prince.
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A group of readers heads out to tent camps around Haiti to read to children displaced by the earthquake.
- Added: Nov 22, 2010
- Length: 07:52
Most Haitian schools suffered at least some damage in the January earthquake. If they weren’t completely flattened, they’ve since been deemed “stru...
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- Added: Nov 22, 2010
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