School sponsorship program hedges against Haiti’s gang violence

Haiti (MNN) — Gang violence in Port-au-Prince hasintensified to a level that puts children at risk even when they are in school. Roseline DeHart with For Haiti with Love says just this month a fly-by bullet killed a student through a classroom window. “People are trying to move away from Port-au-Prince, so their kids can be able to go to school someplace else and safer,” she says. Yet many schools in Cap-Haïtien, where DeHart is based, are already at capacity. What’s more, incoming children ofte