A Classroom
Salvation Army Elementary School
Jamel, Haiti
Summer 2013
The conditions in this classroom are dreadful. The environment defies all good teaching practices. There is no electricity so there is only natural light. Ventilation is limited. So, at times, it is ungodly hot. It is often mosquitos infested which makes it most unpleasant. Most of the desks are broken. The bench are narrow and uncomfortable. The blackboard is so old, it can no longer retain any chalk so the board is virtually useless. There are no books, paper or pencils. The teachers are undereducated and under paid. The outhouse filters in stenches of urine. Street traffic drowns out much of the instruction. And kids do everything they can to come to this school because it is their only chance out of poverty.
