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Haiti - Education : D-8 before Back to School
01/09/2014 13:15:59

Haiti - Education : D-8 before Back to School
Friday, another planning meeting was held between Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe, also Minister of Planning and External Cooperation (MPCE) and several Ministers including Nesmy Manigat, the Minister of Education and the Directors General in order to discuss a Special Plan for the new school year scheduled for 8 September. A few days before the start of school, the Government deploys a lot of means to ensure that this back to school 2014-2014 be a success.

During the meeting, the Minister Manigat announced a series of measures, which relate inter alia to: the distribution of school kits, meals in the canteen, subsidy and staffing of school books, purchase uniforms and furniture.

838,000 students will benefit from a hot meal on the first day of the school year through the National School Canteen Program (PNCS). This measure will be targeted primarily for the areas most affected by food insecurity throughout the national territory;

800,000 school kits will be distributed gradually in favor of students per age group at the national level;

600 million gourdes were made ​​available to publishers and booksellers to distribute 2 million textbooks in subsidy and 1 million books in staffing;

An envelope of 60 million gourdes is also dedicated to the purchase and distribution of uniforms;

100 million gourdes are mobilized for replacement or purchase of furniture and repair of school infrastructure.

For his part, the responsible for the Economic and Social Assistance Fund (FAES) is committed to amplifying the programs already under way to make them more effective during the first 3 months of the new school year for the benefit of parents and schoolchildren. https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11737-haiti-social-ti-manman-cherie-provides-over-166m-gdes-to-78-619-mothers.html

This Special Plan, will also enable officials of the Department of Metropolitan Solid Waste Collection (SMCRS) create 20,000 direct jobs in order to clean all the cities in order to make fluid traffic to some days of the 2014-2015 academic year. https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11938-haiti-social-the-smcrs-will-create-20-to-25-000-jobs-100m-gdes-disbursed.html

During his speech, the Prime Minister Lamothe stressed that this Special Plan was of paramount importance to its government and the main executors have to give it the first priority and ensure sound and efficient management of funds for the execution of this plan.

In addition, the Office of Communication of the MPCE indicated that the construction of the National School of Crochu 1, of the commune of Croix-des-Bouquets and the National School of Thomazeau, section Crochu 2, located in the Department of the West, are fully completed through the execution of two projects from municipal funds. Each with classrooms well equipped, modern toilets these infrastructures that meet standards of the Ministry of Education, will offer students an appropriate space for optimal learning.

See also :
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11922-haiti-education-dignite-is-working-hard-to-be-ready.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11903-haiti-education-important-reshuffle-in-the-ministry-of-education.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11874-haiti-social-back-to-school-help-for-disadvantaged-families.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11737-haiti-social-ti-manman-cherie-provides-over-166m-gdes-to-78-619-mothers.html

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