August 5, 2019
Categories: Access, Medicine and Health, Restavek
In Haiti, many poor rural families hoping to provide a better future for their children send them to live as domestic servants in the homes of urban / semi-urban families. These children, mostly girls, are extremely vulnerable to emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. These children are known as Restavek. According to the data, the majority …
June 11, 2019
Categories: Access, Programs, Restavek
Tags: program
Overcoming extreme poverty requires deep and wide intervention. These girls are collateral damage of slavery, colonialism, and neo-imperialism. Haiti Now has extensive experience with Domestic Servitude and has designed programs according to the needs of the very girls trapped by extreme poverty and exploitation. At Haiti Now we believe our recipients deserve our full attention …
January 27, 2019
Categories: Access, Education, Restavek
Tags: education, Restavek, survey
This is the latest installment of this blog highlighting the conditions of Child Domestic Workers in Haiti. In Haiti, many poor rural families hoping to provide a better future for their children send them to live as domestic servants in the homes of urban / semi-urban families. The majority of these children are girls and are …
December 19, 2018
Categories: Access, Ayiti Now Corp, Books, Education, Poverty, Recipients
Tags: girls, Restavek, schools, waf jeremie
This is the latest installment of this blog highlighting the conditions of Child Domestic Workers in Haiti. In Haiti, many poor rural families hoping to provide a better future for their children send them to live as domestic servants in the homes of urban / semi-urban families. The majority of these children are girls and are …
What Type of Work Restaveks in Domestic Servitude Do? Read More »
June 3, 2017
Categories: Access, Poverty, Recipients, Restavek
Tags: experience, reports, testimony
A research study was commissioned in 2013 by UNICEF, ILO, IRC, IOM and the Terre des Hommes Lausanne Foundation, in cooperation with the Haitian state and was carried out with the support of 28 Haitian organisations. It aimed to throw some light on the situation and the developments of the domestic child workers in Haiti. …
Experiences of Domestic Child Workers in Haiti aka Restavek Read More »