In a statement, the entity stressed the urgency of opening the campuses in order to save the academic year affected by the wave of violence carried out by a coalition of gangs.
The newspaper Le Nouvelliste recalls that the closure of schools in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince deprives teachers of their jobs.
Some schools manage to organize online classes, however, the results are not satisfactory.
«We are moving in slow motion, and the children are more mediocre every day, the programs are not completed. Nothing conclusive is achieved,” lamented the professor whose name was not revealed by the newspaper.
Recently, Haiti’s Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training condemned the looting and burning of schools and universities by gangs.
“Attacking and burning schools and universities, destroying archives, destroying school and university materials, is destroying the main members of a society,” underlines a statement issued by the aforementioned ministry.
What gangs do is destroy the central pillar of a house that allows the entire society to remain firm to prepare the future of children and young people and of a country, the text points out.
The ministry called for unity to protect schools, reiterating that children’s right to education must be protected at all times.
This portfolio highlighted that the number of schools forced to close meant that 200 thousand children did not enjoy their right to education.
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