Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Less than dogs - BBC News
Haiti's abandoned children face a slave-like existence
Jeanette is walking up a hill in Petionville, a district in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. She is carrying a huge blue drum full of water on her head. Jeanette is only six, but has to walk 4km (2.4 miles) every day to get the water from the public standpipe.
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So Jeanette is dispatched each morning and evening to secure this precious cargo. She also looks after the other children in the family, cleans the house, and does all the laundry.
What she does not do is go to school, have time to play with friends, or dare to hope that she will find proper employment one day. ...
Haiti's abandoned children face a slave-like existence
Jeanette is walking up a hill in Petionville, a district in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. She is carrying a huge blue drum full of water on her head. Jeanette is only six, but has to walk 4km (2.4 miles) every day to get the water from the public standpipe.
...
So Jeanette is dispatched each morning and evening to secure this precious cargo. She also looks after the other children in the family, cleans the house, and does all the laundry.
What she does not do is go to school, have time to play with friends, or dare to hope that she will find proper employment one day. ...
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