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 …
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January 10, 2018
Categories: Competitiveness, Economy, Education, France, Haiti, Poverty, Report On Education, Teachers, United States
Tags: gdp, World Bank
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. …
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April 29, 2017
Categories: Economy, Poverty, Recipients
Tags: child labor, economy, income, poverty
On account of various factors relating to the socio-economic conditions that were prevalent, child labor became a part of the everyday life of children in Haiti. Haiti’s population in 2011 was over 9.7 million and nearly 80% of the population in lived below the poverty line. The earthquake of 2010 also caused great losses leading …