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Madame Frantz Calixte

A 5th grade class at the Matenwa Community School in Haiti

This village school in Haiti helped propel a national movement to teach kids in Creole

Education

French has long been the language of education in Haiti, despite the fact that few Haitians actually speak it. But while their native tongue, Creole, was once disdained as merely broken French, there’s now a movement to make it the centerpiece of teaching on the island.

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