As Haiti continues its recovery from the January earthquake, reconstruction in the country takes many forms. With a literacy rate of about 50 percent, Haiti's education system has struggled to provide for its youth, especially those living in rural areas. The disaster only exacerbated the pervasive institutional problems faced by the country's few reforming educators.
Trailer: Haiti's Lost Generation
Published November 9, 2010
"Haiti's Lost Generation," produced by 2010 YouTube Project: Report winner Paul Franz, explores a critical issue in Haiti that has been overshadowed by the humanitarian crises which followed the January, 2010 earthquake. Even before the disaster, Haiti's education sector was in desperate need of reform. Now, post-earthquake, the obstacles to create a public, free and universal education system in the country have only grown higher. The full documentary and multimedia Web site will be released in December, 2010.
Pulitzer Center journalist Paul Franz talks about post--disaster education in Haiti as part of the Clinton Global Initiative's 'Building Resilient Societies' panel.
Tackling the challenges of working in a tent city, music teacher Alzire Roucourt offers hope and education to the Haitian students in her class.
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Grantee, Project Report winner
Paul Franz was one of five winners of the 2010 Pulitzer Center YouTube Project Report contest. He is a multimedia journalist with critically recognized skills in visual storytelling, programming for...
