August 3, 2019
Categories: Medicine and Health, Restavek
Around 20 percent of children, both child domestic workers (CDW) or Restaveks and non-CDWs, who were part of the survey said they slept in a bed without a mattress. The chances of a non-CDW,however, sleeping in a bed with a mattress was slightly higher. About 21.7 percent of CDWs slept on a mat as compared …
July 27, 2019
Categories: Medicine and Health, Recipients, Restavek
Tags: fafo, Visualizations
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. Data shows that the most common …
January 16, 2016
Categories: Economy, Elections, History, Human Rights, Infrastructure, Medicine and Health, Politics, United States
Tags:
The entire Haiti Under President Martelly Current-122015. Below, I have listed extrapolated parts that interested me. Political conflict embroiled Aristide and the opposition, however, and led to the collapse of his government in 2004, and Aristide again went into exile, (? forced by the US ?) eventually ending up in South Africa. Some 17% of the country’s …
May 15, 2015
Categories: Medicine and Health
Source: bean.idaho.gov BE GRATEFUL AND DO NOT WASTE ANYTHING. The kids I work with will eat anything I give them. I have seen them eating molded bread or bread fallen in the mud. It is one of the hardest most difficult moment to be unable to feed a hungry child already malnourished. See on Scoop.it – Teaching …
November 25, 2012
Categories: Medicine and Health, Natural Disaster
Tags: hurricane Sandy, natural disaster
Haiti faces hunger catastrophe after hurricane Sandy destroys harvests | Global development | guardian.co.uk. Although Haiti was not directly in Sandy’s path, the storm last month triggered heavy rains and severe flooding in the west and the south. Rivers which flooded during the storm washed away topsoil, fruit trees and cultures. Eroded banks gave way …