iciHaiti - Education : Grand'Anse handing over keys for 11 reconstructed and rehabilitated schools

Haiti - News : Zapping…

Haiti - Economy : 89% of the adult Haitian population is unbanked

Haiti - FLASH : A student beaten for having been ridden by a Loa during class hours

Haiti - FLASH : The CPT has a designated and unelected President and a contested Prime Minister (Video)

Haiti - News : Zapping...

more news

iciHaiti - Conference on Haiti : «Priority for the region and agenda for its transition»

iciHaiti - Obituary : Death of René Vertus, a legend of Haitian football

iciHaiti - May 1st : Words from the Presidential Transitional Council

iciHaiti - Grand'Anse : Launch of Breadfruit flour in School Canteens

iciHaiti - Morin Neighborhood : Seizure of weapons and ammunition, one arrest

more news

iciHaiti - Education : Grand'Anse handing over keys for 11 reconstructed and rehabilitated schools
20/09/2018 08:01:52

Wednesday, September 19 at the National School Catherine Flon in the city of Jeremie, was held the ceremony of handing over keys by Solidarité Laïque Haiti, for 11 schools rebuilt and rehabilitated in the department of Grand'Anse with the support of the French Development Agency (AFD) and the French Embassy. The opportunity to review the history of this project that brought together the efforts of 6 French and Haitian organizations, Haitian authorities and local populations.

This new infrastructure with anticyclonic and earthquake standards has a capacity of about 3,500 students.

Mrs. Anna Lipchitz, Director of AFD, Thomas Poirier, Representative of the Embassy of France, Jean Ernseau Dauphin, Departmental Director of Education and Junior Mercier Head of Mission of Solidarité Laïque Haiti, spoke around the importance education for sustainable reconstruction in Haiti.

This key handover also made it possible to present the future actions of "Timoun Retounen Lekòl" a reconstruction project started in 2017 and co-financed by AFD with the aim of sustainably encouraging children to return to and stay in school in 60 schools in the Great South and make the population less vulnerable to climate hazards.

The ceremony began at the Catherine Flon National School in Jérémie and continued at Lycée Nord Alexis, still in the city of Jérémie.

IH/ iciHaiti