Haiti: from the streets to gangs, the journey of children left to their own devices
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Les Gonaïves, in the north of Haiti.
The city is located 150 kilometers from Port-au-Prince (Image illustration).
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By: Mikaël Ponge Follow |
Mikaël Ponge Follow
22 mins
According to the latest figures known from UNICEF, in 2019, nearly 200,000 children were engaged in begging and informal odd jobs to survive on the streets of Haiti.
A confiscated childhood that pushes some of them to join gangs.
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The assassination of President Jovenel Moïse on July 7, 2021, was undoubtedly the culmination of this violence that plagues Haiti and Port-au-Prince. The west of the capital is the scene of a gang war that has forced thousands of people to flee. Criminal gangs that sooner or later end up joining the thousands of children left on the streets in the country. In 2019, UNICEF estimates that there were nearly 200,000 begging and informal odd jobs in order to survive. Children who can be found everywhere, on the sidewalks, in front of cathedrals and in public markets, very badly perceived by society. And since the upsurge in kidnappings in the country, they are often seen as bandits. Ronel Paul met some of them in Gonaïves in northern Haiti.
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