United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF says Haiti’s education system faces a twenty-three million deficit in capital.
Executive Director of the UNICEF fund, Yasmine Sherif, said schools in the capital and beyond are crumbling as gang violence deepens poverty and disrupts basic government services.
Sherif announced a two-point-five million dollar grant to help about seventy-five thousand children via cash transfers, school feeding programs and other initiatives while pleading with the European Union and countries including France and the United States to help close the educational deficit in the country.
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Sherif stated that the country needs help emphasising that at least over nine hundred schools remain closed in Port-au-Prince and in the central region of Artibonite because of the ongoing gang violence which she said has affected over one hundred and fifty thousand students.
Sherif added education would be a big part of the solution to Haiti’s instability to end extreme poverty, violence and create political stability and create a reliable workforce.
