Haiti - Social : Eat less to send children to school - HaitiLibre.com : Haiti news 7/7





iciHaiti - Miami : Joël Lorquet at the symposium on Haitian Heritage

iciHaiti - FLASH : Attempted escape at Hinche prison 2 inmates killed, 10 injured

iciHaiti - Special D1 Championship : Complete results of the 10 days

iciHaiti - CNSCA : 68 years of Haitian-Taiwanese cooperation

iciHaiti - Football : Tribute to the Star of Haiti Melchie Daelle Dumornay aka «Corventina»


more news


Haiti - News : Zapping...

Haiti - Damaged optical fiber : Digicel teams brave the danger and repair

Haiti - Insecurity : Disabled people from Foyer St-Vincent attacked by armed men

Haiti - FLASH : The Pope encourages the CPT to work for peace and stability

Haiti - News : Zapping...


more news


Haiti - Social : Eat less to send children to school
27/12/2011 08:36:12

Haiti - Social : Eat less to send children to school
According to a study of the National Coordination for Food Security (CNSA), it was recognized that, by choosing to send their children to school, poor families must reduce the quantity and quality of their food consumption. The National Food Security Survey (ENSA), conducted in May 2011, helped to generalize this fact to the whole country.

According to results from this survey, households in food insecurity (moderate or severe) are for the most those whose the chiefs have no education level (40.61%) or, at least, have not completed primary school (30.63% ). This fact is mainly observed in rural areas where 41.2% of households are in food insecurity against only 18.4% in urban areas. At the level of metropolitan area and other urban areas of the country, over a third of households in food insecurity (36.5%) have their chief that have reached high school, but incomplete. A similar observation was also made about the level of wealth, as measured by the availability of durable goods in the household: nearly 4 on 10, whose chiefs are illiterate, belonging to the group of "poorest in durable goods."

In addition, the number of children aged 6-14 that composes the households in situation of food insecurity at the national level, 78% on average can go regularly to school. For the remaining 22%, either they can not go to school regularly, or they do not go at all.

At the departmental level, we must draw attention to the Artibonite where, on average, 1 in 5 children do not attend school on a regular basis. This report increases as we approach the rural areas.

Meanwhile, education is the second source of expenditure, all wealth groups combined. Of the total of monthly expenses of the household, those allocated to education are on average between 6-10% depending on whether the household is very poor or more fortunate; they are on average two times higher in urban compared to rural areas.

Transport, particularly in the metropolitan area, is also a source of significant expense for poor households after buying clothes, given that a large part of the transportation costs (spending money) is allocated to sending children to school.

HL/ HaitiLibre

Twitter Facebook Rss
Send news to... Daily news...




Why HaitiLibre ? | Contact us | Français
Copyright © 2010 - 2024
Haitilibre.com