Operation Blessing, a Virginia Beach-based international humanitarian organization opened a makeshift school adjacent to a tent city in Port-au-Prince. About 500 Haitian children showed up on its first day, a news release from Operation Blessing International said. The school, which will cater to grades 1 through 6, is being held inside a 40-by-60-foot tent that had previously been used as a mess hall for Hurricane Katrina relief.
Classes will take place on weekdays from 9 a.m. to noon and activities have included hygiene training, camp safety and basic first aid. Formal classes began today. The school was set up adjacent to Camp Dadadu, a tent city housing about 7,000 earthquake victims on a soccer field. It is believed to be one of the first schools to open since the deadly quake struck January 12, 2010.
source: The Virginian-Pilot
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