Ontario Brings Hope To Haitian Student
September 16, 2010 3:15 PM
McGuinty Government Rebuilding Three Schools; Ontario Students Raise Millions
Three schools destroyed in January’s Haiti earthquake will be rebuilt by Ontario.
Fundraising efforts by Ontario students have provided millions to help survivors of January’s earthquake that levelled much of Haiti, and now the Ontario government is extending provincial support by rebuilding schools destroyed in the quake.
The government is seeking bids to rebuild the schools in Port-au-Prince. The schools will meet strict standards to make them more resilient to future earthquakes.
Construction will begin in early 2011 and Haitian students should be back in these classrooms in 2012.
This compassion for Haiti is another example of the province’s global perspective that is a key driver in the Open Ontario plan.
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- The destruction at the administrative offices for Ecole Frere Matthieu.
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- Science class being delivered under the tarps at Frere Matthieu.
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- Reuben Marc – a former primary school that housed 108 students and had six teachers. The site was cleaned of debris, a wall built around the perimeter and is now ready for reconstruction to begin.
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- Makeshift accommodation at Frere Matthieu.
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- Living and working with effects of the earthquake downtown Port-au-Prince.
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- Science Students study in a makeshift classrooom.
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- Ecole Frere Matthieu, now serving as a temporary home for people in tents six months after the earthquake.
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- A student at the Frere Matthieu primary school sits under the make shift tarps waiting for class to begin. The primary school housed about 60 students had four teachers.
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- A chalk board under the tarps at Frere Matthieu.
QUICK FACTS
- Students at 590 schools in the Toronto District School Board raised $630,000 for Haiti. Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute students raised $12,700.
- The earthquake seriously damaged or destroyed 87 per cent of the schools in Port-au-Prince.
- Fifty-one Haitian students displaced by the earthquake have travelled to Ontario to attend school.
- Ontario’s rapid response to the Haitian earthquake included: donating $1 million to the Canadian Red Cross; supplying medical equipment such as wheelchairs, stretchers and surgical tables, and medical supplies, and; dispatching personnel on the ground, including United Nations-experienced officers, and Ontario’s chief forensic pathologist.
- Request for Proposal is available on Merx website
