By Ann- Myriam Douyon | Sponsorship Coordinator
During Isolation the children would wake up, shower and spend the day outdoors. Outdoors during isolation was staying in front of their houses and spend some time at the playground. We made sure that they were active. They would have a fun exercising class at 10:30 am, play hide and seek and even jump rope. After all that sweating and jumping around they would always drink a lot of water.
They spent about two months without going to school. When we saw that quarantine was looking more definitive then temporary, two of our teachers decided to stay with us and work with a modified schedule.
We were lucky enough in Haiti that there was not a huge outbreak. Up to today we only have about 8000 cases of covid-19 since the initial lock down of the country. The biggest issue is that us dollars went up in Haiti. To the point that $1 us was equal to 120 gourdes. So things got more expensive for all the consumers. The prices of the water trucks and the prices for buying gallons of drinking water went up to 40%. Even after the dollar went down after the lock down, the sellers are still not adjusting their prices. Everything is still expensive because we buy all of our essentials in gourdes.
After a few months of monitoring the current situation in Haiti, our executive director decided that GLA would be back in session. School was back in session! The children are so happy because all of the teachers are back. They were excited to be able to learn and discover new things in class again. We are open and functioning as usual. All of our employees are back.
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