HAITI / EDUCATION PROGRAMME

Thousands of Haitian parents are finding relief in an education program that helps to cover the costs of school for their children. The program also trains new teachers to meet a growing need in the country, still recovering from the massive earthquake two years ago. WORLD BANK

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:00
• Production Date: 10 January 2012
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: WORLD BANK
• Subject Topical: EDUCATION; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: HAITI
• MAMS Id: U120110f

Description

STORY: HAITI / EDUCATION PROGRAMME
TRT: 3:00
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / CREOLE / NATS

DATELINE: DECEMBER 2011, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, children in class
2. Med shot, children in class
3. Med shot, child at board
4. Med shot, child at desk
5. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Sainte Helene Florival, Parent:
“It makes life easier and makes money last longer.”
6. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Clement Renold, Parent:
“Many Haitian parents don’ have work and can’t send their kids to school, so it is a great relief because the greatest gift is to be able to put a child in school.”
7. Wide shot, school director in courtyard
8. Wide shot, courtyard pan down
9. Wide shot, teacher in classroom
10. Wide shot, children in classroom
11. Med shot, child at board
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Fritz Frederic, Government Coordinator for Education For All:
“It covers the costs that parents have to pay for their children’s schooling and books.”
13. Med shot, lunches
14. Wide shot, lunches
15. Wide shot, children eating
16. Wide shot, teacher training in classroom
17. Wide shot, teacher training in classroom
18. SOUNDBITE (French) Clara Estime, Teacher Trainee:
“When I got this chance, I seized it, until now the education system has been a bit ignored in Haiti. I want to help my country and participate in the education, and help youth, especially in disadvantaged areas.”

DECEMBER 2011, COQ CHANTE, HAITI

19. Wide, children walking to school rural setting
20. Wide, various children walking to school rural setting
21. Wide, new school
22. Med, sign of project
23. Wide, pan of new school
24. SOUNDBITE (French) Myrlenia Leroy,FAES:
“The new school means there is will be more space and that will increase the number of students each year and the number having access to education in the community.”
25. Med, children in class
26. Wide, teacher with students
27. SOUNDBITE (French) Michelle Dieudonne, Teacher:
“When you are in a new, clean place, you work better and so do the kids, it will change a lot.”
28. Med, kids singing in classroom
29. Wide, kids and teacher singing in classroom and clapping hands
30. Med, kids in classroom singing and clapping

Storyline

Many of these primary school children are from families struggling to get by in post-earthquake Haiti.

Times are still hard here, two years after the massive tremor that destroyed lives, homes and buildings, including this school in Port au Prince which has since been rebuilt.

‘Education For All’ is a government run World Bank co-financed program, aimed to provide free education for all. It currently benefits over 405,000 Haitian school children.

It is a big relief to economically-strapped parents, who say the tuition waiver frees up what little money they have for other essentials like food and housing.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Sainte Helene Florival, Parent:
“It makes life easier and makes money last longer.”

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Clement Renold, Parent:
“Many Haitian parents don’ have work and can’t send their kids to school, so it is a great relief because the greatest gift is to be able to put a child in school.”

Since the earthquake, the World Bank financing has provided tuition waivers for 210,000 children. A new $70 million project will continue to expand access and enhance quality over the next three years.

SOUNDBITE (French) Fritz Frederic, Government Coordinator for Education For All:
“It covers the costs that parents have to pay for their children’s schooling and books.”

The project also provides 70,000 hot lunches daily and health services for children most in need.

Under the World Bank project, thousands of young men and women from disadvantaged areas are learning to become effective primary school teachers through a three year program of intense academic training.

SOUNDBITE (French) Clara Estime, Teacher Trainee:
“When I got this chance, I seized it, until now the education system has been a bit ignored in Haiti. I want to help my country and participate in the education, and help youth, especially in disadvantaged areas.”

In addition to the Education for All Project, a World Bank funded emergency school reconstruction program has built earthquake and hurricane -safe schools where there were none in vulnerable parts of the country.

In the commune of Coq Chante in Haiti’s South East this new school has just been built.

SOUNDBITE (French) Myrlenia Leroy, FAES
“The new school means there is will be more space and that will increase the number of students each year and the number having access to education in the community.”

The new school will also make learning more comfortable and efficient for students and instructors alike.

SOUNDBITE (French) Michelle Dieudonne, Teacher:
“When you are in a new, clean place, you work better and so do the kids, it will change a lot.”

Until the new school opens in January, Michelle is teaching her three and five-year- olds in space borrowed from a private school nearby.