Restavec
As Restavec (also: Restavek , from the French rester avec , meaning "stay with someone") are in Haiti called child slaves who are employed in households.
Poor families (mainly from the countryside) give their children, for whose maintenance they cannot provide, to relatives or wealthier strangers in the city, where the children are supposed to do light household chores and in return they are promised food, shelter and sometimes schooling . In reality, however, many Restavecs are exploited and ill-treated, and the promise of a good education that is often made to parents often turns out to be false.
According to UNICEF estimates, there are around 250,000 restavecs in Haiti. Aid organizations try to help the Restavecs, for example by enabling them to complete a modest education. Jean-Robert Cadet published his experience as Restavec in 1998 in his book of the same name. The Belgian sister Marthe Vanrompay ICM was a champion against the exploitation of the Restavecs and for their rights.
literature
- Jean-Robert Cadet: Restavec . 2nd edition Seuil, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-02-051446-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gaby Herzog: The house slaves of Port-au-Prince . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, August 8, 2009
- ↑ Latin America. Journal of the Friends of Latin America. Quarterly information magazine of the Latin America College , Leuven, vol. 42 (1997), pp. 82–83.