Now the children have been displaced from their school.
Temporarily displaced from her school in Jefferson Parish, just outside New Orleans, by Hurricane Katrina, Georgnell, a 17-year-old junior, is trying to adjust to a new school, different temperatures and unfamiliar surroundings.
It is not clear that students displaced from shuttered schools end up attending better ones.
Pitcher R. A. Dickey, first baseman Ike Davis and the former closer John Franco greeted 100 students displaced from their schools by Hurricane Sandy, taking pictures and handing out presents.
This grant will support tutors for 450 at-risk students displaced from their schools after the explosion; help displaced nursing facility residents and their families; and support a disaster volunteer center to coordinate volunteers over the next year.
She addressed 2,000 school volunteers at Madison Square Garden; shared coffeecake with the firefighters of Engine 54 on Eighth Avenue, who had lost 15 of their colleagues; and read to pupils at Public School 41, some of them displaced from their own school by the terrorist attacks.
With help from UNICEF, they have recently enrolled in Tiébissou I Primary School in the Lacs Region, having been displaced from their own village and school a couple of months ago.
Even if construction proceeds as planned and the new school opens in 2016, some of the more than 400 children displaced from Sandy Hook and sent to a temporary school in neighboring Monroe will have reached middle school by then.
The internally displaced people (IDPs) sought refuge in camps, churches, convents and schools, with some displaced from the capital city, Dili, to districts.
Finding solutions UNICEF has been working closely with the Ministry of Education to provide solutions for children like Rahaf, who have been displaced from their homes and had their schooling interrupted.
