This table   describes the benefits of Girls completing secondary school for both Global values and those for Developing countries (D.C.) Looking at these statistics, getting girls through secondary school helps to  break the poverty cycle with “virtual elimination of Child (age <18) marriage”, increased contraceptive use, decreased fertility rates, decreased infant mortality rate, less stunting of children, and increased decision making ability for the women. With an increase in income and overall security there would be less need for families to feel they need many children to survive. To live in an area that has a good school, like Restore a Child, could further provide education and assurance that large families are not needed.

Supporting secondary schools in the safer rural areas with food programs may help the adolescents recruited in gangs a way to back out if they could find a family like environment that can support them. A food program can help defray costs of an extended family that can let these adolescents develop in a world where they have a better chance of survival. 

The extreme violence and insecurity of Port-au-Prince to me has no easy solution,. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one”  Mother Teresa. Restore a Child school of Upward Bound Ministries has a viable school in rural Haiti that would benefit greatly from a dedicated secondary school, a wall around the property and a playing field. Success of this project, of these children, can be a model for all of Haiti as the international community supports rural education. Improved access to bring supplies through the peripheral ports and borders would be my suggestion about use of international resources. It would be easier to control the roads from the periphery, work centrally and provide opportunities for urban children and adolescents (and their families) to escape to these supported schools and associated communities. 

“The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them, or, when you do, to send money” Paul Farmer