Desks Become Beds as Haitian School Shelters People Displaced by Violence

The offices become beds while the Haitian school houses people displaced by violence

The classrooms of the Anénor Firmin school in Hinche in the center of Haiti are no longer carefully silent. Once a place of learning, it now resonates with the sounds of crying babies, the water containers that collapsed and voices whispening at night. More than 700 people moved by violence are piled up in the […]

Desks become beds as Haitian school shelters people displaced by violence

Gang violence in Haiti has displaced hundreds of thousands of people and many are finding shelter in former schools where belief in the power of education remains strong.