Lost Childhoods in Haiti: Quantifying Child Trafficking, Restavèks and Victims of Violence
Summary: A PADF study for USAID quantifying child trafficking, restavèk and victims of violence through door-to-door survey work in troubled urban neighborhoods.
Key Findings
- Based on 1,458 door-to-door surveys in troubled urban neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haïtien.
- PADF estimates 225,000 restavèk children in urban areas.
- Notes that the vast majority of restavèks are girls while shelter services are not correspondingly available.
- Surveys households directly rather than extrapolating from service records.
Full Description
A PADF study for USAID quantifying child trafficking, restavèk and victims of violence through door-to-door survey work in troubled urban neighborhoods. Its contribution is measurement where the phenomenon is usually estimated: it surveys households directly rather than extrapolating from service records.
How to cite
Pan American Development Foundation (PADF); United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 2009, Lost Childhoods in Haiti: Quantifying Child Trafficking, Restavèks and Victims of Violence, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/padf-2009-lost-childhoods-haiti