Tuesday, Me Castro Arboite, Director General of the school bus company Dignité took stock at a conference at the Primature, on projects of his company, announcing the addition of 50 new buses to the fleet of 257 buses spread across ten departments, providing free transportation to Haitian school children.

For the 2013-2014 academic year, Mr. Arboite declared "We did not have any huge loss this year and our bus fleet still remains with the same quantity. [...] Dignité has fulfilled its mission until baccalaureate exam, wherever there were Bac exams, to bring students to the exams and return them, immediately after the close of the academic year 2013-2014 Dignité was always at work with the resources that the Government Martelly-Lamothe has made ​​available to us through the Minister of Economy and Finance (MEF) we began to work to start preparing our fleet for the next school year, although we do not yet know the date, but fortunately we started in good times because this year we hope that the school will open as the Ministry of Education Nation declared it, September 8, for allow children to have more school days, more days to learn [...] we are working hard for that before September 8, our entire fleet is ready to pick up the kids and take them to school."

At the conference Mr. Arboite also praised the work of drivers, inspectors and officers from the National Police of Haiti (PNH), which enabled the company Dignité to achieve this result satisfactory.

Recall that the bus company Dignité was founded in 1995, in the beginning it was carrying students for a monthly fee; in 2011 the President Martelly has decided to make this free service. For the 2013-2014 school year, Dignité has received a subsidy of 292 million gourdes for the operation of buses and paying various employees. For 2014-2015, Dignité will receive the same budget. Last year the company had also received 50 new buses through a donation of South Korea to Haiti.

S/ HaitiLibre