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The State University of Haiti, in Port-au-Prince, is the largest public university in Haiti and had 10,130 students enrolled in 2008, with 2,340 of them being first year students. Estimates on the number of students enrolled in higher education vary greatly from 100,000 to 180,000, leading to about 40% to 80% of students in the private sector.
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 ...
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 .
A restavek (or restavec) is a child in Haiti who is given away by their parents to work for a host household as a domestic servant because the parents lack the resources required to support the child. [1] The term comes from the French language rester avec, "to stay with". Parents unable to care for children may send them to live with wealthier ...
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 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.
Louverture Cleary School will be the flagship school of The Louverture Cleary Schools Network, a system of ten tuition-free, Catholic, co-educational secondary boarding schools—one in each diocese of Haiti—providing 3,600 students with a quality education steeped in service and 1,200 alumni with scholarships to Haitian universities each year.