Jacky Lumarque points Symposium participants at this article as the starting point for his presentation. Ten days after the earthquake, Quisqueya had organized a volunteer system. First the medical students set up in a tent on the parking lot. They were supervised initially by their teachers, then by a team of Slovak doctors who arrived [...]
In the preface, Dr. Louis Herns Marcelin, describes the goals of the report on The Challenge for Haitian Higher Education as: "The goal of this study is to contribute to a national and international dialogue and to recommend solutions to the higher education challenges facing the nation. We identify deficiencies of the current system that [...]
Mme. Michèle Pierre-Louis describes the importance of rebuilding Haiti's education system and of incorporating Haitian voices and Haitian culture in the international reconstruction efforts: "I’ve been an educator for part of my life, and I think education is very significant. Rebuilding the education [system] is rebuilding the future of Haiti. Disaster preparedness should start [...]
MIT Prof. Michel DeGraff describes his hopes for MIT’s involvement in helping to rebuild the educational infrastructure in Haiti. Most Haitians I know have a precise and often tragic story about what they were doing when the earthquake hit on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, at 4:53PM. In my case the story is not [...]
