Massive Israeli School Set To Open In Haiti

Hundreds of children in the city will arrive on Monday for the first day of school in the makeshift school. Some 800 pupils will study there.

Israeli school set up among Haiti's ruins
Excited Haitian children manage to locate education material among wreckage
Oshrat Nagar-Levitt • Ynet

Though the Israeli search-and-rescue team has left Haiti, the Israeli spirit continues to waft through the devastated country. An Israeli delegation to the island country set up a provisional school among the earthquake wreckage.

The school, which is located in a large tent in Port-au-Prince, was established in coordination with the government of Haiti and neighboring Dominican Republic. Hundreds of children in the city will arrive on Monday for the first day of school in the makeshift school. Some 800 pupils will study there.

Upon hearing of the school's launch, many children started searching the rubble for school supplies. Among the items they found were chalk boards, books, and notebooks.

"We are locating education figures and dominant people within the camps. Through them, we are recruiting additional key figures," said Dr. Moshe Farhi on Saturday. Farhi is heading up the Israeli delegation that left for the country from the organization Natan Israeli Coalition for International Humanitarian Aid, named for Israeli activist Abie Natan.

Dr. Farhi, who is also a trauma and stress expert teaching at Tel Hai Academic College, said excitedly that teachers have been trained in how to treat traumas children have undergone.

The delegation is slated to remain in Haiti for half a year.

The Yad Sarah volunteer medical organization, together with the Foreign Ministry, will donate three tons of medical equipment to Haiti. Israeli Ambassador to Haiti Amos Radian was asked to coordinate the aid shipment.

Itamar Eichner contributed to this report.

Comments

[Hometown Postville]

Anything to bring a semblance of normalty to the area is great! A good diversion from the tragedy. Also, keeping a large number of children off the streets will allow other recovery efforts to proceed more efficiently. Hopefully, the school will be able to continue past the 6 month provisional period.

[NMD]

Education- the best long term commitment any group can make.

Good on the Israelis.

[A. Nuran]

First working hospital.
First working school.
First working relief effort by a religious organization.

That's a Light unto the Nations.

[effie]

This is very good. Besides the importance of the children continuing their education, it will distract them from their troubles and maybe feed them a couple of decent meals a day.

[state of disgust]

Wonderful idea.
When can we expect to see a similar effort in Yerucham, Ofakim or Shlomi? Or how about in Jaffa (I still remember the Arab school in Jaffa as being a hole).

[Dunash]

The goal is to Judaize these Haitian Negroes, give them a quickie geirus and ship them over to continue the on going Negrification of the State of Israel that started with the bringing over of the Falashas that the Rebbe warned again and again against, as part of the dastardly NWO Erev Rav (who are descendants of the Hamitic Negroidal Ancient Egyptian magicians) plan to destabilize it!

[Jon]

LOL unless you're serious, at which point I'll actually laugh out loud.

[Alex Schindler]

yeah Dunash ur either really funny or deeply, deeply disturbed

[PishPosh]

Du Nash a ganse shtick hashish mitten dien challah fur dein shabbos tish ich meint.

A Svartze Yor zo du hot.

[Dunash]

Macht nish ken tumult, uberdumpf!