The Future

Michael Appleton for The New York Times


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.