From: Cheryl Mills
To: Hillary Clinton
Date: 2009-07-26 14:07
Subject: CHERYL, HERE IS A QUICK BACKGROUNDER ON CHILD SLAVERY IN HAITI
Background
Haitian parents unable to care for their children have traditionally sent them away from home,
to relatives or strangers who are expected to provide the children with food, shelter, and an
education in exchange for housework. Children given or sold into this system are known as
restaveks, a Creole term based on the French"restez avec" ("stay with"). While some restaveks
are cared for by their host families and sent to school, most of these children are subjected to
years of hardship, abuse, and involuntary domestic servitude. At one time the practice may
have benefitted both child and the host family, but for most restaveks it is now a modern form
of slavery.
The roots of the restavek system reach back generations, and mirror involuntary child domestic
servitude patterns in West Africa. The practice is so entrenched in Haitian society that it is not
limited to the upper classes – poor families routinely keep one or more restaveks who come
from even poorer families.
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