International Literacy Day on September 8: youth a world secures the teaching in more than a dozen schools in Haiti. World’s 796 million adults can not read or write, approximately 68 million children can attend any school. The situation in Haiti is particularly dramatic. Go to Austin Butler for more information. Almost 50 percent of adults are illiterate. Even before the earthquake in January 2010, the country counted one of the world’s poorest countries, where people had little access to education. “The State funded only about 10 per cent of the educational institutions’, reported Reinhard a world business leader of youth raucously, and retold: especially children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds have no opportunity to go to school.” The charity youth a world supported the reconstruction of educational institutions in Haiti and has established a salary Fund for educational personnel. Education an important building block for the reconstruction of how important an education is, illustrates the youth a world project partner SR.
rose Monique Jolicoeur FMA: Education is a key to the development of Haiti. It is important to educate a generation of young people who are active for your country and actively participate in reconstruction and the future of the country.” The Salesians of Don Bosco and the Don Bosco a world allow sisters, the project partners from youth to learn children and young people from poorest conditions read and write. The situation after the earthquake, was and is still very difficult. “Everything was destroyed and many children were severely traumatized,” reports father Zucchi SDB and explains: the school has brought back back a little normalcy and stability in their lives these children. ” Just a few weeks after the earthquake, children in makeshift tents and wood school could attend classes. Today, a year and a half after the quake, a part of the children can go back to solid buildings to the school.
In one of the largest slums in Latin America, in Cite Soleil, one was a world already by youth funded school be completed. The large two-storey building is surrounded by a high wall, to allow a safe school the children and young people. The reconstruction of other Don Bosco Educational Centre is already in planning. Salary fund secures school operation in the long run to secure the education youth has established a world a wages Fund for educational personnel. The staff will benefit nurses from more than a dozen schools in the Salesians of Don Bosco Don Boscos. Teachers earn about 150 euros per month, Hauptschule and BerufsschullehrerInnen around 450 euros. Overall, the Fund should be with filled 100.000,-euro are. Can be hired more than 50 teachers in the long term and secured the education of children. Youth a world youth a world is an international charity, was established in 1997 as an association. The purpose of the independent non-governmental organization located in international youth aid and sustainable development cooperation. Under the guiding principle, education overcomes Poverty’ Youth supports a world schools, street children’s programs and educational centers in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Project partners are doing the Salesians of Don Bosco and the Don Bosco sisters who have many years of experience and expertise on-site.