Haiti: Schools Struggle to Reopen after the Quake

Some schools reopened in the wrecked Haitian capital, nearly three months after the January 12 earthquake, but others could not because of lack of repairs or equipment. The education ministry, backed by UNICEF, had called for classes to resume 12 weeks after the quake which reduced many parts of the city to rubble and destroyed or damaged more than 4,000 schools. The education ministry itself was also destroyed.

But while some schools, many private, were able to reopen using donated tents as classrooms, others remained closed or turned students away because their premises were not yet repaired. Overall figures for how many schools had restarted were not immediately available.