Political Crisis Adds To Heavy Burden On Haiti's Youth

Political Crisis Adds To Heavy Burden On Haiti's Youth
By Amelie BARON
02/20/21 AT 9:08 PM
The political crisis paralyzing Haiti has not only hampered young people's schooling and compromised their future, it has aggravated existing challenges that have forced many to grow up far too fast.
Sitting on the roof of a house his uncle is building, 20-year-old Kervens Casseus balances his geology book on a broken cinder block he uses as a makeshift desk.
"The opposition and the ruling authorities: they're the ones destroying the country," says Casseus, who has not been in class once this month.
A high school senior pursuing science studies, he has received neither homework nor any instruction from his teachers.

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