[ti:UN: Violence Is Harming Haiti’s Schools]
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[00:01.88]Schools in Haiti are operating
[00:04.72]without enough chairs, blackboards,
[00:07.36]and even bathrooms.
[00:10.24]Violent criminal groups
[00:11.88]limit basic government services
[00:14.80]and deepen poverty
[00:16.64]while the state education system
[00:19.16]faces a $23 million deficit.
[00:23.24]Yasmine Sherif is the executive director
[00:26.68]of the U.N. organization Education Cannot Wait.
[00:31.52]"The country needs help," Sherif said
[00:33.96]during her three-day visit
[00:35.48]to the Caribbean country in July.
[00:38.84]Sherif said the organization provided
[00:41.64]$2.5 million
[00:43.56]to help nearly 75,000 children in Haiti
[00:47.00]with money, food and other programs.
[00:50.36]And she asked the European Union
[00:53.32]and other countries,
[00:54.80]including France and the U.S.,
[00:56.92]to help close the educational deficit.
[01:00.92]"My main concern is security," she said,
[01:04.20]noting the effect that violence has had on education.
[01:09.00]Criminal groups, called gangs,
[01:11.08]killed or injured more than 2,500 people
[01:15.20]in the first three months of the year.
[01:18.36]Violence has seriously affected
[01:20.20]life in the capital,
[01:21.68]Port-au-Prince, and elsewhere.
[01:24.84]At least 919 schools remain closed in Port-au-Prince
[01:29.92]and in the central area of Artibonite
[01:32.80]because of gang violence.
[01:35.96]The U.N. says that school closures
[01:38.48]have affected more than 150,000 students.
[01:43.16]"Education is part of the solution," Sherif said.
[01:48.12]"That would end extreme poverty,
[01:50.32]extreme violence and create political stability
[01:54.64]and create a reliable workforce."
[01:58.44]Gang violence also has left some
[02:01.48]580,000 people homeless across Haiti,
[02:05.72]with many crowding into temporary shelters
[02:09.00]or taking over schools, causing them to close.
[02:14.00]Schools that remain open are increasingly forced
[02:17.32]to take students from others that have closed.
[02:21.04]The Jean Marie Vincent School
[02:23.32]in central Port-au-Prince, for example,
[02:26.00]has accepted students from 12 other schools.
[02:30.56]Charles Luckerno is the head of the Vincent School.
[02:34.08]He said, "We're not the only ones"
[02:36.92]facing such serious problems.
[02:40.16]Luckerno said that when classes end for the day,
[02:43.72]people left homeless by gang violence
[02:46.56]enter the school and sleep on its ground.
[02:50.52]Although that creates health problems,
[02:53.04]Luckerno still lets them stay.
[02:56.16]He said, "We are human.
[02:58.08]We cannot throw them out."
[02:59.84]Williamson Bissainthe
[03:02.20]is a 22-year-old high school student
[03:04.84]who is preparing to take his final exam to graduate.
[03:09.28]He described the sad state of some schools.
[03:12.92]"A lot of schools are missing benches or chairs.
[03:16.40]Teachers do not show up on time.
[03:19.12]The hardest part of this
[03:21.08]is that there are no bathrooms," he said.
[03:25.00]Bissainthe added, "I hope that
[03:27.52]the generation that comes after me
[03:29.48]doesn't have to go through the same suffering."
[03:33.60]Private schools are out of reach for many in Haiti,
[03:36.44]a country of more than 11 million people.
[03:40.44]More than 60 percent of the population
[03:43.00]earns less than $2 a day.
[03:46.28]Among those who have been forced to flee their homes
[03:49.24]is 20-year-old Megane Dumorcy.
[03:52.88]She would like to study agriculture,
[03:55.36]but completing her education has been difficult.
[03:59.76]"The insecurity has had a huge impact on my life,"
[04:03.32]she said, noting that some students have been forced
[04:06.92]to leave their backpacks behind as they flee gangs.
[04:11.84]"The state should find a solution for that.
[04:14.60]We shouldn't be living in a country
[04:16.44]where our movement is limited."
[04:19.16]She said her school is only half-built
[04:21.64]and lacks a library, a computer room,
[04:24.72]a blackboard and chairs.
[04:27.56]She does research on her phone when needed.
[04:30.12]Another blow to Haitian schools came in late 2022.
[04:36.00]That was the time the U.S. started a program
[04:39.12]permitting Haitians and people from other countries
[04:42.32]to enter the country on humanitarian grounds.
[04:46.60]"A lot of teachers left," said Frantz Erine,
[04:49.52]an official at the Jean Marie Vincent School.
[04:53.64]I'm Jill Robbins. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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