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The Haitian Educational System yields the lowest total rate in the education realm of the Western Hemisphere. [3] Haiti's literacy rate of about 61% (64.3% for males and 57.3% for females) is below the 90% average literacy rate for Latin American and Caribbean countries. [1]
Schools in Haiti’s capital and beyond are crumbling as gang violence deepens poverty and disrupts basic government services as the state education system faces a $23 million deficit. “The ...
Educated children are the key to Haiti’s peace and prosperity, says Arne Duncan, former U.S. secretary of education. In addition to helping quell chaos in Haiti, we must get its children back to ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — UNICEF warned Tuesday that schools in Haiti are increasingly at the mercy of gangs, with children becoming targets of robbery or ransom. The agency said that at ...
The National Haitian Student Alliance (NHSA) is a non-profit organization, which serves as an umbrella organization to all Haitian student groups and affiliated clubs in the United States and Canada's community colleges, universities, and all forms of higher learning institutions.
The Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (French: Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, et de la Formation Professionnelle, MENFP), or simply "Ministry of National Education," is a ministry of the Government of Haiti.
Parents in Haiti are scrambling to ensure that their children not only stay out of direct harm, but also continue their education amid the ongoing strife caused by violent groups.
Haiti, [b] officially the Republic of Haiti, [c] [d] is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic .