IDB - Inter-American Development Bank
$20,000,000.00 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program
- —
- Recipient country
- Haiti
- Fiscal year
- 2010-2011
- Agreement period
- January 11, 2011 – June 30, 2018
- Project status
- Closed
- Reference
- CA-3-A035198001
Published purpose
This project contributes to the Haitian Ministry of Education’s Back-to-School program. The project provides tuition waivers for 35,000 school children and school kits (backpacks, uniforms, books, and pencils) to an additional 35,000 children. It also includes clearing debris from sites and building 13 schools in three provinces most affected by the earthquake. The schools are being built to withstand future hurricanes and earthquakes and are equipped with several classrooms, furniture, educational equipment, sanitary facilities, administrative offices, running water, and electricity.
In plain English AI-generated
This project supports Haiti's education system after an earthquake by funding tuition waivers and school kits for 70,000 children, clearing debris, and building 13 earthquake- and hurricane-resistant schools with basic facilities.
Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada
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