Compassion International has released a report showing that five years after the massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti they are on track to fulfill promises made during rebuilding.
The Christian ministry is on track to build 30 new school buildings by spring. The schools, built with $31.2 million dollars from sponsors and donors, will help get education back on track.
Compassion even created a construction company with engineers from El Salvador to build the 30 schools. The schools will have the unique feature of being built to withstand strong earthquakes like the 7.0 quake of 2010.
The majority of students in the country receive their education from private church run schools because there is no established public school system in Haiti.
Matthew Moore of Compassion told the Christian Post that the schools were a necessity because without them they could have lost 25,000 children from their programs to improve their lives and prepare them for a better life.
A teen girl who stood up to the Taliban and survived an attempted assassination has received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Malala Yousafzai is the first teenager to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Malala was a teen advocate for girls being given an education, which went against the edicts of the Islamic terrorist group. The Taliban tried to assassinate the then 15-year-old as she traveled to school in Pakistan’s Swat Valley in October 2012. The bullet struck above her left eye and grazed her brain but did not cause fatal damage.
She was flown to Britain where she received treatment and now attends school. She is still a worldwide advocate for the rights of women in Islamic countries and to raise awareness of the treatment of women by Islamic groups such as the Taliban and ISIS.
“The extremists were and they are afraid of books and pens,” Yousafzai said in a speech last year at a UN youth assembly. “The power of education frightens them. They are afraid of women. The power of the voice of women frightens them.”
“The terrorists thought that they would change my aims and stop my ambition,” Yousafzai said last year. “But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.”
