"My children have had everything taken away from them," said another mother, who wanted the school restored and reopened, suggesting that taking away their school building would add injury upon injury, loss upon loss.
Before I deployed in 2007, most of my training involved learning about things like opening schools, restoring hospitals and restarting electrical service.
He retired in 2006 and began a foundation in New Orleans that helped elementary schools, restored flood-damaged properties and offered finance classes to residents.
He's constantly asked to do Mancunian pride of the city stuff ("my civic duty", he calls it): snipping ribbons for Citizens Advice, new art schools, restored Victorian buildings.
There are those who argue that bringing back grammar schools restores a channel of social mobility to some of the less well-off, and there are those who argue that this is divisive, and that comprehensive schools should be good enough for all.
They would also like to see the decision-making power on the provision of schools, including free schools, restored to local authorities, along with the power to open council-controlled community schools.
Once the most pressing needs are met, significant and sustained support will help to rebuild schools, restore infrastructure and re-establish child protection measures.
Schools restore a sense of normalcy to children whose lives have been disrupted by violence and/or displacement, and provide the forum to deliver interventions beyond education.
Schools restore a sense of normalcy and teach children the skills they need to survive and thrive, helping them rise above the horrors they have witnessed.
The school's mission is to improve the lives of working children by enrolling them in school and restoring their basic rights.
