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The senselessness of violence – 13 February 2019

Things are crazy here in Haiti. Road blocks, burning tires, and gun fire.P-a-P is just wild. I am house bound since two weeks. All the roads are blocked.All schools and most business are closed. People who work on a daily basis, like street vendors and day labourers have no money.Yesterday on of my teachers called me and said that they are out of drinking water.I have lots of drinking water but I cannot get to them because all the roads are blocked. I am sure their food is also low. Most Haitians do not have refrigerators ( 60% of Haitians do not have electricity!) so most people buy the things they need on a daily basis. I feel terrible because I know that there are many in that situation.Since out teacher training center is in a sleepy town outside the capital, our trainer managed to keep classes going through it all, but on Monday we closed because all the schools in Liancourt closed as well. We cannot seem not to be in solidarity with the demonstrators.One of our partner preschools opened and demonstrators stoned the school as a warning. I am so against violence and it breaks my heart that this is what children are learning as a problem solving solution.