Children and education
11 January 2011
Amanda (lower centre) and Maturin (lower left) with their classmates
4,000 schools were damaged or destroyed in the earthquake, including 80% of the schools in Port-au-Prince. Islamic Relief aims to ensure that the pupils’ families also benefit from their education, by equipping the children with the skills and education they need to enter into higher education and, later on,
In November, Islamic Relief staff and local pupils celebrated the reopening of three primary schools, which we had rehabilitated. Children at these schools had been studying outdoors for months, enduring heavy rains and extreme heat. Now, the 2,500 students are able to focus in the classroom once more.
Amanda and Maturin share their experiences of the earthquake
Amanda, 10, and Maturin, 13, are friends. They were studying at Pierre Labitre School when the earthquake struck.
"I was studying on the top floor of my school when the earthquake began to shake the building,” explained Amanda, I fell over and hurt my legs, and my mother, who was at home also hurt her legs.” Amanda’s cousin was also at school when the tremor struck, “Unfortunately one of my cousins died in the earthquake.”
“After the earthquake we had to study outside in a tent for classes,” Maturin explained. “It gets very hot in daytime and I would become very thirsty; I didn’t enjoy sitting and studying under that tent. But now our school has been rebuilt. It is colourful and nice. I want to continue and study and become a nurse. I’d like to thank Islamic Relief because they repaired our school and even gave us exercise books too.”
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