
This article was in the New York Times today about the state of the Haitian education system after the earthquake. What blows my mind is the challenge -- how do you take an ALREADY failing school system (and I don't mean failing by US standards; I mean failing) that barely enrolled 50% of school-age children in Haiti and rebuild its infrastructure in a country where every government facility has to be rebuilt. The challenge is mind-boggling.
This is the kind of article that I think Ti-Jean speaks to really well; the last image of the play when Ti-Jean and the Bolom walk off into the sunset together, the promise of a free Caribbean -- it is this hope that the Haitian people need in spite of the overwhelming adversity they face.