Local July 25, 2022 - 12:47 pm

Respite from violence, Haitian children flee to DR

Port-au-Price.- “The shootings continues to make noise in my head,” Esperancia Rémy, 12, tells Efe, one of many children who have fled from Cité Soleil, a municipality in the metropolitan region of Port-au-Prince, the scene in recent weeks of a bloody war between armed gangs.
The girl is sheltered with hundreds of minors in a school in Delmas 33, while her parents are still in Cité Soleil, where clashes between armed gangs have left more than a hundred dead and thousands of new displaced, according to humanitarian organizations and human rights.
In total, there are some 700 refugee children from Cité-Soleil, mostly unaccompanied, housed in five centers run by the charity La famille de Kizito.ong other variables, explained the financial institution.

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