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		<title>Digicel and USAID to build primary schools for Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Digicel Foundation and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have launched a project which trains at-risk and out-of-school youths in Haiti to convert shipping containers into primary schools. The Digicel Foundation and USAID have already opened the first school built under the public-private partnership. Ecole Louis de Borno in Leogane will welcome 600 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haitischools.com/digicel-and-usaid-to-build-primary-schools-for-haiti/3085</link>
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		<title>A New Haiti Education Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A plan to build a new education system in Haiti is one of the most encouraging things to emerge from the rubble of the Jan. 12 earthquake. It is expected to be endorsed at a meeting on Tuesday of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, the joint Haitian-international body created to guide the country’s rebuilding. Talk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haitischools.com/a-new-haiti-education-plan/1782</link>
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		<title>HONEYWELL BREAKS GROUND ON NEW SCHOOL IN JACMEL, HAITI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Partnership with Operation USA and the City of Jacmel, Honeywell Delivers On Its Commitment to Haiti; New School Slated for Completion by January 2011 MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., August 10, 2010 — Honeywell (NYSE: HON) broke ground today on a public school, Ecole Nationale Jacob Martin Henriquez in Jacmel, Haiti. In attendance were Tom Buckmaster, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haitischools.com/honeywell-breaks-ground-on-new-school-in-jacmel-haiti/1279</link>
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		<title>Miami Dade College students to rebuild Secours D&#8217;en Haut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By REBECCA HUVAL (Miami Herald) &#8211; Last year, Ashley-Jo Villard, 19, originally from Port-au-Prince, and her Miami Dade Honors College classmate, Natalia Valbuena, 20, had promised the townspeople of Trou Caiman &#8212; population 22,000 &#8212; that they would build a new school for 100 students. But after the earthquake hit, their U.S. donors redirected money [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haitischools.com/miami-dade-college-students-to-rebuild-secours-den-haut/0975</link>
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		<title>Going to School in Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before the earthquake – 50% of Haitian children were out of school. Most children who traditionally went to school in Haiti attended private schools – 90% of Haitian schools were private and charged fees. Many poor parents could simply not afford school fees, uniforms, and school supplies and so their children missed out. Nearly half [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haitischools.com/going-to-school-in-haiti/2772</link>
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		<title>Maine businesses build school in Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Woolwich (NEWS CENTER) &#8212; An intrepid group of 40 Maine businesses have banded together to overcome obstacles of getting aid directly to Haitian people and are building a school in the devastated Haitian community of Cabaret, Haiti. They are hoping it is just the first such project they fund and oversee in Haiti. &#8220;I think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haitischools.com/maine-businesses-build-school-in-haiti/1569</link>
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		<title>Virginia Tech creates Haiti intern program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BLACKSBURG, Va., May 4, 2010 &#8212; The following is a letter from Senior Vice President and Provost Mark McNamee. On January 12, 2010, an earthquake in Haiti destroyed the lives of students, staff, faculty, facilities, and infrastructure in most of its universities, nearly all of which were located in Port-au-Prince. Much like the selfless outreach [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haitischools.com/virginia-tech-creates-haiti-intern-program/0464</link>
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		<title>Columbian Pop Star Shakira to build Haiti school</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Colombian pop star Shakira has met child survivors of Haiti&#8217;s earthquake as her charity prepares to build a school in the disaster-stricken Caribbean country. The singer, who has already joined Hollywood actors and other global celebrities to raise funds for the victims of the January 12 earthquake, flew into the wrecked Haitian capital Port-au-Prince aboard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haitischools.com/columbian-pop-star-shakira-to-build-haiti-school/1161</link>
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		<title>Schools Reopen in Port au Prince</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Schools are opening across Haiti&#8217;s capital for the first time since a devastating earthquake hit nearly three months ago. It&#8217;s a major step toward normalcy, but the hard-hit education system is just beginning to recover. The Jan. 12 quake damaged or destroyed some 4,000 schools. Nobody wants to put children back under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haitischools.com/schools-reopen-in-port-au-prince/0559</link>
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		<title>Fattah to Team up With First Lady of Haiti, Paul Vallas to Rebuild Education in Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, March 11, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ &#8212; Congressman Chaka Fattah (D., PA) this week met with first lady of Haiti Elisabeth Preval, Louisiana Recovery School District Superintendent Paul Vallas, and George Washington University President Steven Knapp to discuss the future of education in post-earthquake Haiti. At the meeting, it was announced that Haiti will be launching a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haitischools.com/fattah-to-team-up-with-first-lady-of-haiti-paul-vallas-to-rebuild-education-in-haiti/1157</link>
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