Gang violence in Haiti has displaced hundreds of thousands of people and many are finding shelter in former schools where ...

Children play in a school turned into a shelter after they were forced to leave their homes in Cite Soleil due to clashes between armed gangs, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, July 23, 2022.

Haitian children who escaped gang violence take shelter in school. The children are from the town of Cite Soleil, where gang violence has killed hundreds of people and damaged homes this month.

Some school buildings are in gang-occupied territory or have become de facto shelters for those forced from their homes, leaving hundreds of thousands with no chance for formal learning.

Roc Auxène walked the premises of one of the oldest schools, Lycée Pinchinat de Jacmel in this sun-swept southern city on a recent afternoon, wondering where to begin. Several of the classrooms ...

Survivors of the powerful earthquake that shook Haiti scrambled for shelter, food and medical supplies Wednesday as officials acknowledged that the deadly temblor had disrupted vaccination efforts.

The Notre Dame de Lourdes School, on the edge of the Haitian border town of Anse-a-Pitres, is a study in contrasts. In the classrooms on one side of the courtyard, children sit in tidy yellow uniforms ...

Since the schools were built, Haiti has experienced two Category 1 hurricanes and there was no serious damage to the schools or emergency shelters. Despite some design flaws, in the long-term, the ...

MARCELINE, Haiti – Authorities in Haiti have postponed the start of school across the country after last month's 7.2 magnitude earthquake destroyed schools and homes across Haiti's southern ...

Haitians displaced by Hurricane Matthew are living in "inhumane" conditions in government-run shelters, a United Nations expert said Tuesday. The powerful storm crashed ashore in southwestern ...

Item 1 of 5 Haitian children who escaped violence in the town of Cite-Soleil line up to receive food, as they refuge at a school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 22, 2022. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol ...