The Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training, in partnership with COSAF launches this Wednesday, July 20, 2022 a summer camp called “Kan 2022 Jwe pou lavi”.
This event, which will be held at the Jean Marie Vincent high school in Caradeux in the township of Tabarre, is intended to be a space for recreation, living together.
Educational, cultural and artistic activities will be on the menu of this camp having received logistical and financial support from the National Fund for Education (FNE), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the National School Canteen Program (PNCS).
It is a summer camp of creation, recreation and learning compensation. This summer camp launched with great pomp at the Jean Marie Vincent high school in Caradeux in the township of Tabarre is a space for recreation, living together bringing together schoolchildren living in the outskirts and downtown Tabarre from the 7th grade to the senior year. It is a strategy to accompany and supervise children from difficult neighborhoods.
Similar activities should be organized in other schools, other neighborhoods and for the benefit of other categories of children in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, said the Minister of National Education. To achieve this, Nesmy Manigat said he is counting on the support of partners including COSAFH, FNE, UNICEF and PNCS.
The director of the national education fund insisted on the role of this kind of activity in the socialization of school children. Jean Ronald Joseph said he intends to accompany the MENFP for the smooth running and success of the camp.
Many children, parents of children are traumatized by the climate of violence, insecurity and misery that is taking place in the country supports the representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund Bruno Maes. He praised the importance of this initiative of leisure and education for the benefit of all children, especially those of the Great South.
1400 children must take part in these activities which will last one month. This program must cover several regions of the country, say the organizers. This camp called “Kan 2022 Jwe pou lavi” comes at the right time considering that the country is going through a crisis that tends to forget the leisure and national traditions.