The last few years have been filled with escalating violence and insecurity in Haiti. Certain urban areas of Haiti are under gang control. Kidnapping for ransom is widespread, with over 100 kidnappings reported in January and February alone.
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Chilove, 17, joined Grace Emmanuel School as a 10th grader this fall. She lives in Source Matelas, the village just south of the school, where she attended the national school.
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If you walk through the village of Source Matelas on any given school day, you are bound to run into school-aged kids who are not in school. Perhaps they started school in September but were sent home after a few months when their mom couldn’t pay the rest of the tuition. Maybe their older siblings are in school, but there just wasn’t enough money to send the younger kids. Maybe they’ve never had the chance to go to school.
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Certainty has all but dissipated entirely over the past 365 days as COVID-19 has collectively challenged our world in more ways than we could have ever predicted. We have all felt the gravity of change in the midst of a crippling pandemic, political tension, agonizing loss, and social upheaval. What began as a two-week quarantine following the outbreak of this disease has since crept into another calendar year.
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