The guns and guys make dreams impossible with children Haitian

The last time Pierre, 10, the mother saw her at the roof of the school building, and cried, and a gang around the neighborhood.

The heads of family and teachers called the parents to take their children as the sound of guns explored and approached the armed men. Then everyone ran for them. Laida ended alone.

Faid says: “There was a fear of Faid,” and people ran out of the building. People were raided from the bond, so the children were trying to reach the roof. “

A year ago, and like another 300,000 children across Haiti, Faida, who was in the third grade, stayed.

The Haitian Haitian Levels are dismissed and prosperous, victims of violent violence have endured the country: They are homeless, hungry and often targeted for armed groups.

Many schools remain close because they are in a gang area. Some have become a shelter, such as more than one million – 10 percent of the country’s population – They left their homes during a gang.

Following the rise of Port-Prince, the capital, last February, nearly 15,000 households went down to government and school building, unicef, childhood organizations United Nations, who despised children from school.

Even the family who continued to open the school said they could not write their children because they did not have enough money for tuition fees, uniforms and accessories. Most children in Haiti attend independent schools, but the public school also pays simple charges that many families have been burned to the house and business no longer able to give money.

Meanwhile, thousands of children left Port-au-Prince for safer space elsewhere in Haiti, excessive schools in many communities.

Schools also had to face the double chains of teachers and workers who died or left the country. The schools of Haiti disappeared about a quarter of their teachers, according to the public servants.

In addition to education losses, non-schools make them vulnerable to armed groups who have damaged their lives. Experts estimate that up to half a gang is a minor.

In the territory where 77,000 food shores occurred for the late 2023-24, 10,000 in the month of the month. Dasa. As a result, the authorities are estimated that about 130,000 students in the capital city are not from 13 school year in the last academic age.

The authorities said that the full evaluation was unable to make the full evaluation of how many students had been in this year.

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When the New York photographer and photographer in New York visited the school in the Fall, Faida and her mother, Borine Parine, sleeping abroad in the mosquito and the rain.

“At night, at times he wakes up, and he weeps,” Ms. Parice said. “He asks when he returns to school.”

Wudley Beauty, 17, and Sadorra Damus, a 15-year-old sister, and did not see more than a year.

Saddor was chosen into police chief, but he needed to pass nine nine exams to enter the police academy, and left the school after eight classes. Wudley, who did not find the 10th grade, would like to be a auto cell.

They sleep on a floor with dozens of people.

“My first prioration is to go back to school because when I share my goals to people because I say: ‘If you want to go back,'” Wudley said . “My family does not have the money to send me to a mechanical school.”

His mother, Soirilian Elenord, 38 years old, she wants her children to school, but with the cosmetic shop and the house has released a gang member, says four more than learning.

“School? It is not a priority,” he said. “My priorities are to survive. His priorities for all parents in Hait now is how to live.”

UNICEF worked with the Haitian government to provide money for the needy family, but the priorities were engaged in school, and many parents said they were not worth the help .

Bruna Maes, who recently as Chief Unicef ​​in Haiti, he recognized that not enough to help to help all the families, but the children will be reduced.

The situation was difficult for 100,000 students, especially from the capital, which moved to the south, which was peaceful.

But schools had no chairs for them. Many students fled from their clothes and appeared without birth certificate, the school or other documents proves what their classes are.

“You have the lack of documents, you have the impact of violence to escape, and then you don’t have the chair and you can’t pay,” says Mr. says Maes. “The magnitude of the problem affects most of the children is great.”

The stakes are high: UNICEF claimed the number of children raised by a gang in 70 percent. Often to see seniors 7 years work as a gang, experts.

Janine Morna, who believes in the civil war for Amnesty International, has reported members of the women’s tribute to Haiti whose has joined them or a financial determination. The gangs often give monthly payments or allows members of the younger to hold the changes in the race, he said.

There was no one of the minor children in school.

“We know that schools can prevent responsibility for keeping active children and to participate,” Mrs. Morna said. “The children we talked were left to die – sometimes they were set up to their homes or weavers without fun and play.”

“Hope to go into a gang,” he added, “and it becomes more attractive at school.”

The Haitian authorities said they were committed to improve the important step in strengthening the country. The goal is to give the school easier by insurance that the first degree is free and gives the family and books.

The government also rented the house to receive students who became the school’s shelter.

“Haiti has investigated a lot of money in education,” the Minister of Teaching of the Country, Augustine Antoine.

Some Western departments, which included port-au-Prince, have opened again to the Fall, but with fewer students, Etien Louisseul France, says Etien Louisseul France who is in charge of the school in the area.

Haiti niti since 2021, when his last president was killed. Last year, Gangs hospitated to the police station to the police station, the hospital and its surroundings. Police Department fell – Many police have served us to take advantage of the Visa Parole for Humanity – the government has struggled to find violence.

Port-au-Prince Airport has been closed since November after the GANG members departed the Gang members. International Force, provided by Biden Administration and most Kenyan police, made a small thing to eradicate gangs in the capital.

The UN said at least 5,600 people killed in 2024, nearly 25 percent of the year.

“Now the situation has many schools have to shut down, even a private school,” atrance said, but the authorities should “think about plan B.”

The Backup Ms. Elpenord is to send his son to live with family far around to go to school. The daughter was trying to go to school a few weeks ago, but Gangbirhes was held.

“I feel that my destruction,” his son said, Wudley, who still hopes to start 10th grade. “And it makes me sad.”

André Paulru Delivery from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.