Weapons and Pirates School builds an impossible dream for Haiti children

The last time Faida went to school, 10, his mother was closed on the roof of the school building, barefoot and crying, attacked the port-Au-Prince Quarter.

Directors and teachers called their children as the voice of the gunfire increased and the sounds of gunmen approached their children. Then everyone lost his life. Was left alone.

“It was a panic,” Faida remembered, “people were kidnapped by the building. The people were told that the pirates attacked the neighborhood, so the children were trying to reach the roof.”

This was a year ago, and Fuida, in the third grade, stopped going to school.

Prospects for their education and future, Haiti children’s legions, the victims of the bunch of bunches injuring the country: homeless, hungry and often targeted by armed groups.

Many schools are closed because the network is in occupiency areas. Others have become actual shelters, as well as about 10 percent of a million people, about 10 percent of the country’s population – their homes during the groups of communities.

After the increase in violence, Port-A-Prince, UNICEF, UNICEF, the United Nations Orders and schools of the United Nations did not go to school for about 15,000 households.

The families where the schools stayed open, they said they could not celebrate their children because they did not have money for school right, clothing and materials. Most of the children in Haiti are participating in private schools, but public schools also receive modest rights that many families that have already burned home and jobs to the ground.

At the same time, tens of thousands of children, in several communities, in extreme schools and left the port to a Port-prince for safer areas in Haiti.

Schools also had to cope with the number of teachers and employees, and many of which many were killed or left the country. Haiti’s schools, according to government officials, lost a quarter of their teachers.

In addition to the loss of education, being out of school makes them sensitive to join many armed groups permers in their lives. Experts appreciate this up to half of the gang members are minors.

Port-au-Prince, 77,000 ninth grade students, at the end of the 2023-24 academic year, showed 77,000 ninth graders from the end of 10,000 years. As a result, 130,000 students in the capital area of ​​officials were 130,000 students of the last academic year of the school system.

Authorities said that how much the student failed to do so much this year.

Faida can’t go to school, but lives in one. Fuidan’s father was killed in a bunch of attacks, his mother said that he and Faida Lycée Marie Jeanne school attended Faida, a port-au-princess.

When the New York Times reporter and photographer visited the school in the fall, Faida and his mother, Faith, washed out in a yard in the mosquitoes and rainwater.

“At night, sometimes wakes and cries,” said Mrs. Parice. “He asks if he will return to school.”

Wudley Beeague, 17-year-old and his 15-year-old sister Sadora Damus was there and missed more than school for more than a year.

Sadora dreams of being a police chief, but you need to go through the ninth class exams to enter the police academy and then leave the school after the eighth grade. Wadley, who missed the 10th grade, wants to be an automatic mechanic.

They lie on one class floor in one of many people.

“My first priority would return to school because when I share my arms, ‘If you want to be a mechanic,’ ‘Waddley said. “I have no money to send my family to mechanical school.”

Her mother, Soirilia Elpenord, 38, wants children in school, but the host staff with a gang, the host, the mother of the dubules, the mother of the dubel, said the shelter is higher.

“School? This is not a priority,” he said. “My priority is to live. The main priority for all parents in Haiti can live at the moment.”

The UNICEF Haitian government said that they were prioritizing their children, but their children were written to school and many parents did not match the help of many parents.

Recently, Buno Maes, A UNICEF head in Haiti, acknowledged that there is no enough financial to help all families, but more children will leave school without help.

The state of education was more than 100,000 students, first of all the students moved to the south, than the relatives of life, which moved to the south.

But in schools there were no seats for them. Many students only ran with clothes on their back and showed any other documents that prove their birth certificates, school transcripts or any class.

“There is a lack of documents, the violence has to force them to escape and then we have a seat in schools, then you do not have money and you can’t afford,” he said. Maes. “The volume of issues affecting the majority of children is great.”

The stakes are high: UNICEF said the number of children approved by gangs last year increased by 70 percent. Experts say that 7-year-olds are common to see children work as a network seekers.

Janine Morna investigating the children in an armed conflict for Amnesty International, said that the young gang members in Haiti, who met for the approaching report, said they were in a threat or financial helpless. Networks often give a small monthly payment or allow young members to protect the change after tasks.

None of the minors interviewed.

“We know that schools can prevent recruitment,” Morna, who is active and engaged in children. ” “We were empty what we talked, sometimes they are limited to enriching the houses or displacement sites and without the opportunity to play.”

“The prospect of joining a bunch,” he said, “He is more attractive than school.”

Haiti officials said they did to develop the education system as a key step in stabilizing the country. The goal is to make the early prices more suitable by providing free and stipends and families with books.

The government has also leased buildings to accommodate students with de facto shelters.

“Haiti laid a lot in education,” he said, the Minister of Education of the country Augustin Antoine.

In some schools of the Western department, some of the Western deposit, but in autumn, but with fewer students, Etienne Louisseul France, the official official of the Ministry of Education, which controls schools in this region.

Haiti has been in confusion since 2021, when the last elected president was killed. Last year, gangs met in police station, hospitals and all the neighborhoods. Done by the police department – many officers took advantage of the United States from humanitarian conventional visas – the government struggled to contain violence.

Port-au-Prince Airport hit the US trade planes from November, from November. An international force-funded by Biden’s leadership and mainly prepared by Kenyan police officers, did little to empty the groubles in the capital.

The UN said at least 5.600 people He was killed in 2024, about 25 percent a year ago.

“Now the situation has to close a lot of schools, even private schools should have been closed,” he said.

Ms. Elpenord’s spare plan should be sent to live with his family to keep his son away from his neighborhoods. He tried to go back to school a few weeks ago, but he kept the bunch of shots.

“I feel this ruin me,” he said. “And that makes me sad.”

André paulte Port-au-Prince contributed from Haiti.