Post-Earthquake : 400,000 students without school for 4 months

Four months after the 7.2 on the Richter scale earthquake, which hit Haiti's southern peninsula hard on August 14th https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34681-haiti-earthquake-latest-assessment-of-civil-protection.html, nearly 400,000 students have still not been able to return to class, the reconstruction and rehabilitation work progressing very slowly...

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Haiti is ranked among the five countries that depend primarily on the transfer of the diaspora, alongside Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Tonga and Nepal. Nearly 50% of Haitian families live mainly on transfers from the diaspora.

Vocational training for disadvantaged young people

The Lorquet Foundation for a New Haiti, and the vocational and technical school "Haiti TEC", signed a partnership agreement protocol aimed at promoting technical professions in order to enable young people whose means do not allow them to learn a trade at their own expense in order to take charge of their future.

Laureate of the Jacques Roche Prize

The jury for the Jacques Roche Prize for Cultural Journalism at the Georges Castera Library in Limbé, awarded the 2021 Jacques Roche Prize to journalist Daphney Toussaint for her training and information work in the fields of music, cinema, crafts and art.

65 Chaplain police officers graduated

Friday, December 10, 65 police officers from the 3rd promotion "Marie Christine Jeune" from the "International Police Chaplain Human Rights" (Religious and humanitarian organization, Chaplain's mission is to help when the State is powerless) were graduated after 1 year and a half of training. These Chaplain policemen will work with the National Police of Haiti, will have to help elderly people in particular, act in working-class neighborhoods where the state is absent and in the event of disasters.

Training on the Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Gender Violence

Coming from the various communes of the Nippes department, around sixty heads of youth organizations participated in training sessions for trainers carried out by the Haitian Youth Observatory on the Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Violence Based on genre. These young people will have to reproduce these trainings within their community.

HL/ HaitiLibre