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The French school in
Port-au-Prince, who has lost a teacher and seven students in the
earthquake of January 12, intends to resume classes on March 1, said
today the Ambassador of France in Haiti, Didier Le Bret.
The Lycee Alexandre
Dumas, home since the earthquake a field hospital run by the French
Civil Security, was partially damaged, but several expert concluded that
the buildings did not suffer serious structural damage.
The math teacher and
students missing were killed outside the campus. In addition, the school
has no news of twenty students and it is possible to say whether they
are dead or have left town.
"Next week, we take
courses through distance education with a platform mounted by the Agency
for French Education Abroad (AEFE) for students to review class,
terminal, first and third, "said the
ambassador told AFP.
"We will catch up and
lost five weeks. The course will be on the internet, or students' homes
or in rooms equipped of high school French," he said.
Monday, March 1, classes
will be reopened to accommodate the number having remained in
Port-au-Prince while more than half the students left after the disaster
in St. Domingo, in Montreal, France, the Caribbean and Miami Florida.
A return to full strength
is expected until September after a renovation of the school. The French school had
around 700 students before the earthquake and 15% to 20% of youth were
in classes to review. The system of distance
education will also benefit the ten institutions with which the Haitian
Alexandre Dumas High School has entered into partnerships.
In the field hospital
located on the campus of the school has been treated the last survivor
to date derived from the rubble, a young girl of 16 years, Darlene
Etienne, clear debris by rescue in French state extreme dehydration two
weeks after the catastrophic.
