In high school French, classes resumed

On the hills, the town hall, which bears on its front the motto of the Republic of Haiti, “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, was abandoned because of precarious balance. Its services are transferred across in the local library. Responsible for strengthening the municipal team, one French, Richard Landry, plays a role of superintendent. His mission began well before the earthquake, in partnership with the French Development Agency (AFD) and the City of Strasbourg. “It manages the emergency while reorganizing with the desire not to mortgage the future. It is not to rebuild in flood during hurricane, building with seismic standards while many residents want to relocate in a hurry, “said Richard Landry.

A jewel of private secular education in Haiti, the French school-Pommayrac Alcibiades, too, suffered. The primary school collapsed causing no casualties and the school requires the work of rehabilitation. He welcomes Creole and French soon began in kindergarten. The 750 students who pass the end of the tray Haitian Studies and French are selected on merit. Young people from disadvantaged families are privileged to the same level competitions, thanks to a grant system. “We have taken courses outside without waiting for students to pass exams at year end. We welcome others with their rotation to restore faith in the aftermath. We will rehabilitate and rebuild, “says Gerard Borne, facility director and consul of France. Carefully maintained, the gardens are planted with bougainvillea. “Our role is to give these children an education and a framework. Our park is there to show what he can do with the environment, “he said.

But, by the sea, in artists’ quarter, the mood is sullen. The workshops of painters and craftsmen are closed. There will be no carnival in Jacmel this year. The designers still continue to make street costumes and papier-mache masks. One complete uniform of a Devil and winged boots. It will not scroll band this year.

The Quai d’Orsay said that 50 Haitian children were adopted more expected in coming days in France. In total, 909 families are in contact with the service of international adoption for a total of 999 children. 418 families take advantage of an adoption order made by a Haitian court for a total of 482 children. Some 228 young Haitians have arrived in metropolitan France for ten days, on several flights, said at a regular press spokesman of the ministry, Bernard Valero.

The policy of France in adoption provides children for which judgments were pronounced positive can win the France to be greeted by their adoptive families. But the destruction and chaos that followed the earthquake slowed the establishment of complete dossiers and final checks, Paris wanted to avoid any errors and any child abduction.

Secretary of State for Family, Nadine Morano, announced last week the establishment in Guadeloupe of a reception center for children being adopted. The center must provide, she said, a “contact phase, transitional home and encounter” with the adoptive families that they often do not know.

Nearly 200,000 people were injured and more than 600,000 left homeless after the 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit the Caribbean nation which shares borders with the Dominican Republic on January 12, 2010 the ministry said.

source: Xinhua