It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men -- Frederick Douglass

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19

2012 March Newsletter

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Click here to download French Version 2012 March Newsletter.

Dear Friends:
Greetings! If you have read My Stone of Hope, published in October 2011, then you understand whattools are needed to fight child slavery and how to help children trapped in the system. The book, as itfinds itself in different parts of the world, will pressure Haiti’s government to create policies to addressthe issue.

Your donations helped 13 year-old Loudy, who was sold in 2010 for $25.00 to a food vendor, reunitewith her biological aunt. Loudy , whose school tuition has been paid to June 2012, can now read andwrite her name. She is happy and enjoying childhood.


In 2010 Lourdy in slavery

In 2012 in First Communion dress.
 
Magdala, who was rescued a few months after the January 2010 earthquake, is enjoying good health. She’s living with her paternal family, enjoying childhood and going to school.


 

 In 2011, the Foundation enlisted the help of the University of Cincinnati and Northern KentuckyUniversity to create a curriculum aimed at sensitizing Haiti’s children to the plight of children indomestic slavery. In December 2011, we trained and sensitized 50 Haitian teachers on the use of thecurriculum and provided them with tools to improve learning environments. The teachers will teachtheir students how to reach out to children in domestic slavery. Professors from both universities arecommitted to continuing to train teachers in different areas of the country. A French TV station fromParis who had came to Haiti to do a documentary on restavecs filmed the five- day-workshop. Thereport was televised in French speaking countries in February 2012.


Haitian teachers being trained on pedagogy     Students being sensitized


 
 
The Foundation also produced a music video which will be televised on Haiti’s National TV in early April to sensitize Haitian society, shows images of children in servitude carrying children to school. We hope the video will reach the population at a subconscious level and create a national dialogue on child slavery.

Thank you so much for your continuing support which is making a difference in the lives of Haiti’s most vulnerable children.

Jean-Robert Cadet

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If you were a restavek child, you would most likely be:
One of an estimated 300,000 Haitian children enslaved in child labor.
If you were a restavek child, you would most likely be:
From an isolated, rural area of Haiti where there are no schools, no electricity, no running water and few possibilities for the future.
If you were a restavek child, you would most likely be:
Living in the city with a family who is not your own -- not as a foster child, but as their servant.
If you were a restavek child, you would most likely be:
Between the ages of 5 and 15, and missing out on your childhood.
If you were a restavek child, you would most likely be:
Three times more likely to be a girl than a boy.
If you were a restavek child, you would most likely be:
Up at dawn, before any member of the family you serve, to begin preparing for their day, and in bed well after most other children are asleep.
If you were a restavek child, you would most likely be:
Responsible for preparing the household meals, fetching water from the local well, cleaning inside and outside the house, doing laundry and emptying bedpans.
If you were a restavek child, you would most likely be:
Getting no pay for any of these activities.
If you were a restavek child, you would most likely be:
Unable to see your family or remember where they live.
If you were a restavek child, you would most likely be:
Unable to attend school consistently, if at all -- depending on your owner's financial situation and schedule.
If you were a restavek child, you would most likely be:
Hungry, as you would probably not get enough to eat or food with enough nutritional value for someone who works hard all day.
If you were a restavek child, you would most likely be:
Subjected to physical, emotional or sexual abuse.
If you were a restavek child, you would most likely:
Never have all of your rights as a child respected.
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