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Posted on Tue, Dec. 16, 2008
Broward schools OK sending portable classrooms to Haiti
BY NIRVI SHAH
The Haitian government hopes to have a school campus created from old Broward school district portables by late January.

Broward School Board members Tuesday approved the donation of about 100 portables to hurricane-ravaged Haiti. These are the first of some 3,000 portables Florida school districts have pledged to the country.

''We are witnessing today an unprecedented and historical event that will transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in Haiti,'' said Charles Manigat, minister of Haitians living overseas.

Former education minister Leslie Voltaire said the portables will also be used as health centers.
Both Manigat and Voltaire attended the Broward School Board meeting Wednesday.

Once the country negotiates a contract with Bahamas-based Carey Marine International, the marine construction company has pledgee to get the first shipment to Haiti within 20 days, Voltaire said.

Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Martin County school districts have also pledged gifts of portables to Haiti.



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In the name of the poor children of haiti we thank the florida counties which are giving these potables to our children.There should be more cooperation between the state of Florida and haiti.

Minister Charles Manigat shoul contact Florida Institute of Technology to see if it can help the haitian government build a least 10 campuses like the one in Melbourne in each of the geographical department in haiti.It is through good education that we will improve the lives of the young haitians.

It is a shame that the only vocational school in haiti does not have the equipment to educate the young haitians .It is at last reconforting to know that the Minister of haitians living overseas is doing something.