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P-au-P, August 6, 2024 (AlterPresse) – Tuesday, October 1, 2024 is the date officially selected for the reopening of classes throughout Haiti for the 2024-2025 school year, a year after 2023-2024, due in particular to the terror and other types of violence by armed gangs in the west, where the Artibonite and the metropolitan area of the capital Port-au-Prince are located.
The news was announced by the new head of the National Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (Menfp), Augustin Antoine, at a press conference on Tuesday, August 6, 2024, and later by AlterPresse.
“Restoring School Authority” is the theme Menfp has chosen for the 2024-2025 school year.
Menfp holders stressed that the choice of this theme constituted a way for the school to redefine itself in order to achieve its republican mission.
“Schools must be the glue, the guarantor. And it is this guarantee that allows everyone to progress in life. This means that teachers must be in the classroom. But the state must also pay them on time,” declared Antoine.
The administrative start of the school year for school administrators will begin on Monday, September 16, 2024.
280,000 parents in several targeted geographical sectors will receive approximately 15 to 20,000 gourdes (Editor’s note: 1 US dollar = + 140.00 gourdes; 1 euro = 145.00 gourdes; 1 Canadian dollar = 96.00 gourdes; 1 Dominican peso = 2.40 gourdes today) through a program called “Cash Transfers” in an envelope of 5 billion gourdes, implemented by Menfp in partnership with a telephone company.
The cash transfer program will be implemented as part of the transitional government’s support for parents and will focus on basic public, municipal and community schools.
The plan is to distribute textbooks, school supplies, uniforms and 10,000 benches to elementary first to fourth grade classes.
Menfp promised that in the 2024-2025 school year, Haiti would open 17 public schools and rehabilitate 111 high schools and national schools, and announced regulations aimed at regulating the status of administrative and teaching staff.
From February to April 2024, school activities were severely affected by violence by armed gangs, particularly in the Artibonite and West departments, where the metropolitan area of the capital, Port-au-Prince, is located.
919 schools in the Artibonite and Occidental departments had to close from January to June 2024. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) reported in a report covering the period from July 19 to August 2, 2024 that 515 of these 919 schools were completely closed.
As of January 2024, a total of 942 schools have been closed, of which 403 have been completely closed.
These closures affect approximately 156,000 students, or about 4.9% of Haiti’s 186,491 schools. (mff emb rc 2024-06-08 16:10)
Photo: Menfp Facebook page
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