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Haiti
Riley Hawkins and Alyssa Elliott

Quick Facts

Population- 11,562,675 Capital- Port-au-Prince Currency- Gourde Language- French, Haitian Creole Poverty Rank- Haiti ranks 163 out of 191 countries.
Current Events
  • Haiti remained in long- standing political, security, and humanitarian crisis, leaving the government branches distressed and inoperant.
  • Armed gangs have increased, resulting in much violence, disrupting buisnesses, hospitals, and schools.

How do you think these events could affect students' education?

Education

  • Most Haitians lack access to a good education. (Unprepared teachers and below average classrooms/ materials, low academic expectations.)
  • Provided with little financial support.
  • Low enrollment rates; high dropout rates.
  • Education is becoming increasingly privatized.
  • The USAID provided materials through UNOPS for 416 schools, serving 34,490 students.
  • Haiti's ministry of National Education and Vocational Training instituted a training policy that teachers and educational personnel must go through to improve educational services in schools.
  • Sertifica Assessment: This is a test that students take at the end of fifth-grade. Less than 2% of students pass this exam. (Probably because it is in French and most lowere education students do not know French
  • There is vocational training, but this is mostly for the wealthy who can afford to attend vacational school.

Privatized Education

(Non-Profit Schools)
  • Mercy Beyong Borders
  • Together for Haiti

(Also provides a higher education for students)

  • 202 univeristy scholarships awarded
  • 97% graduation rate

Interview/ Interesting Facts

  • The main sports are soccer, basketball, and dance.
  • There was no cafeteria at the private school she attended.
  • There was no special education class at the school she attended.
  • School days were Monday- Friday; 7:00-3:00

- private - English speaking

Works Cited

  • https://www.usaid.gov/haiti/education#:~:text=Currently%2C%20the%20majority%20of%20Haitians,departments%20for%20approximately%2034%2C490%20students.
  • https://www.monafoundation.org/new-horizon?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwnOipBhBQEiwACyGLuhfNFp-Q6-1ktS-qiFdC4cM09cfYtgPrcPNjgDB4OBkolYPZcA_C3BoCav4QAvD_BwE
  • https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/sr245.pdf
  • https://www.mercybeyondborders.org/mission
  • https://togetherforhaiti.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwqP2pBhDMARIsAJQ0CzozlLVUfq1B0r-ep6OHW_JJYRGwb9X4lRdBUwVa5jD0W0HcC0yJS0oaAqnCEALw_wcB
  • https://www.scholaro.com/db/countries/Haiti/Education-system#:~:text=Haiti%20Educational%20system%20is%20based,used%20in%20the%20public%20schools.
Mission- Provide a better future for Haitians. Focus- 4 areas of development: spiritual development, Economic development, Educational development, Physical development

Mission- Forging ways for women and girls in extreme opverty to learn, connect, and lead. Vision- A world in which all women are educated, connected, adn influential. Conviction- When women learn, women matter. Then everything changes