Eager to learn: Elene attends a math class at the Bom Berger Baptist School, Cite Soleil slum, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Monday. Schools are opening across Haiti’s capital for the first time since a magnitude-7 earthquake hit Jan. 12, killing a government-estimated 230,000 people. The Education Ministry and all its records were destroyed, and more than 700 teachers and staff were killed along with an estimated 4,000 students. Schools are expected to open gradually across the quake zone, with the goal of having 700,000 children back in school by the middle of May, said Mohamed Fall, UNICEF’s chief educational official in Haiti. The school year has been extended until August to make up for lost time.
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