Today we toured the slums of Haiti, where The Salvation Army operates schools for some of the poorest children in the country. Students are not only given a good education for a fraction of the cost of other schools, they are also fed a nutritious hot lunch, the best (and possibly only) meal many of them will have each day. The Salvation Army school in one of the suburbs, Fort National, was the smallest school I have ever seen. Located in a densely populated suburb, the school was a very narrow, three storey building. In one 3metre x 3 metre classroom sat 26 students, neatly cramped into bench desks! However despite the difficult conditions, the students are happy and getting a quality education which enables them to have a better start in life than many
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