School Opening Proves Difficult in Les Anglais
Some residents in all three municipal parts, notably Verona, Edelin, and Cosse, are still unsure where to turn a month after the deadly earthquake in the Great South. The population is confronted with crises that are unheard of. Food shortages and the inability to obtain safe drinking water have become issues.
This church in Les Anglais started falling apart as people inside waited for a baptism to begin.
"The city is divided into three towns, each of which counts dead bodies. Either under houses, churches such as the Immaculate Conception Church, which hosted a baptism on that Saturday where people had begun to assemble, or people hit by rolling stones. Gardens ruined, dead animals, and yet nobody from the State has visited us," hammered Vaillant Veniel, the head of a chapel in Boco, a district in a town of the city.
Despite being aware of the people's immediate needs, the populace has been left without assistance after many human losses estimated to be twenty-two by civil protection. Material losses have yet to be adequately identified.
How about the reopening of classes?
The Ministry of National Education has already scheduled to resume courses today, October 4th. Will there not be a meta-crisis if parents are in such difficult situations? Isn't the prospect of reopening, in other words, one of the various crises?
Vano Louis, a young man from the city, explains the impossibility of reopening classes. "At this time, we are unable to open the school. As the saying goes, we can't talk about bathing water if we don't have drinking water. The nun's congregational school has collapsed, just like the national school and the kindergarten. As a result, few schools in the area are still standing, and those that are are at best cracked."
ASEC of the second township, Edlen village, and coordinator of the central committee of the zone's health center, Louis Jean Louis Litan, stated:
"Won't it be a repeat of the disaster? The majority of the schools in this area are private. Principals are solely focused on their schools as a business. So far, the Ministry of Education has not even delegated agents to inspect schools to determine whether or not they can open. Standing cracked schools might also be classified as damaged buildings. Demapou's national school, a critical shelter that accepts people from all across the city, has been destroyed. To be honest, the school's opening is still a long way off.”
One can wonder if there are real possibilities for reopening classes at public and non-public schools. The public is unsure where to go, and the authorities responsible have said nothing on the subject.
William SM Saint-Cyr
