Restavèks

For a majority of Haiti’s children, life is marked by hardship as a result of the country’s miserable economic conditions. The life of children called restavèks is worse. Restavèks—extremely poor children who are sent to other homes to work as unpaid domestic servants—are prone to beatings, sexual assaults and other abuses by host families. As restavèk teens get older, they are commonly tossed to the street to fend for themselves and become victims of other types of abuse.