Schools and Lost Territories: What's the Inventory?

Which school is still standing in the metropolitan area? A week ago, we listed the public institutions lost in the labyrinth of infernal insecurity.

We stopped at 102. Without being exhaustive, our readers continued the exercise themselves. We thank them warmly. In the meantime, there are new displaced entities, such as the Caisse d’Assistance sociale (CAS), now homeless. Or others, like the DGI, who relocate in anticipation, citing a technical breakdown. As good managers, they act preventively, sensing the gangs' fury, unable to repel or neutralize them. That's not their job.

But what about private schools and universities? What has become of them? Lost territories, or abandoned institutions? A school should be a protected place, a sanctuary. The same goes for a library, a museum, and many other institutions, established as a red line in war-torn countries. Even in the darkest periods of our history, these places are supposed to be protected.

However, the 'new revolutionaries in slippers' care little for the existence of schools and universities. They don't care about the botched school year. As in normal situations, Haitians adapt. Several officials sublease their establishments to newly arrived institutions, forced to relocate due to insecurity.

While others are simply hosted by good Samaritans, or integrate into other educational and university institutions.

The list is very long. Their status varies from displaced, re-located, re-housed school… when they haven't simply disappeared from the school map, becoming a distant memory…

In short, a new arrangement of the school system is needed to find the addresses of certain schools in the urban area of Port-au-Prince.