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Saturday, March 6, 2010

With Haitian Schools in Ruins, Children in Limbo

By SIMON ROMERO

After Haiti’s quake: children in Pétionville danced at a day care program run by the French Red Cross.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Thousands of schools in and around this devastated capital could remain closed for months or never reopen, according to Haitian and United Nations education officials. That leaves vast numbers of children languishing in camps or working in menial jobs as they struggle to survive.