Haiti: supporting the victims for the start of the school year
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A classroom damaged by the earthquake in Camp-Perrin on August 24.
AFP - RICHARD PIERRIN
By: Marion Cazanove
21 mins
The start of the school year was originally supposed to take place today.
But last Thursday, the Prime Minister rejected it: it will take place on September 21 in the majority of the country, on October 4 in the departments hit by the earthquake in August.
Will this one month delay be sufficient?
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Many schools are among the buildings that were destroyed in the August 14 earthquake.
The precise assessment is still undetermined since the evaluations are in progress.
Out of a third of the schools already inspected, more than 15% turn out to be totally destroyed, 60% damaged.
“It's a race against time,”
said Bruno Maës to our correspondent Amélie Baron.
He heads Unicef in Haiti and is worried about this short deadline to rehabilitate or develop spaces that can serve as a temporary school.
"We believe in providing protective and secure learning shelters for children to prevent them from losing another school year."
Bitcoin becomes the official currency of El Salvador
This is a world first: a country makes a cryptocurrency its official currency.
As of tomorrow, bitcoin will be legal tender alongside the US dollar.
A measure wanted by the young president, Nayib Bukele, but it is highly contested in the country, because bitcoin is not a stable enough value.
A series of polls shows that 70% of the population is not in favor of this measure and does not want to use it.
Hundreds of people demonstrated last week to demand the repeal of this law.
Since then, the army has protected the some 200 ATMs being deployed that will allow the use of cryptocurrency.
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