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for three hundred years the most powerful nations on a us group which are on strong go on the profits of the slave trade over twelve million men women and children will also be transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south america today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the nineteenth century it is a life it is thriving and it is bigger than ever. amid the ruins of a devastating earthquake the human tragedy plays out in the slums of the caribbean island states of haiti and. it goes by another name but it's amounts to child

slavery. and instead. read by names as alaska. they assume one thousand million man a very poorly. man really you could live on but we shall but i view him. best tony enough with dad there. who was in the duo in civil affairs. are both of them. why then do i want. you now still to go no you're not you're leaving he what they really want to see is that the bad. news is what they want this that is that bus.

eighteen is only two hours flight away from the beaches of florida and yet it's the poorest country in the caribbean and off the decades of ruinous dictatorship and crushing poverty thousands of haitian families have been forced to place many of their children into a system that's led to the abuse and exploitation this system is called rest of it . rest the fact was some say a system with good intent that went back. rest of a children with typically those born into the poorest the families in rural haiti was sent to wealthier families in cities in the hope that they would get an education and a better life. the reality is that it has always been open to abuse and today up to two hundred twenty five thousand children here a little bit and how slaves. have you know that if i did it. but how in

a country that prides itself on being founded by slaves who rose up against a colonial masters could child slavery become so endemic. in this that you only did who shot. poor libyan is this rather. this crowd this they live. oh or boards you really you know to for all this crap huge deal for. annette's is eleven years old. her life was changed dramatically for the worse by the quake. but. we didn't. but annette had already been robbed of a normal family upbringing. she was just eight years old when she went to live with

her aunt in the country's capital also prince. she did receive some schooling in the afternoons but her working day typically began at three or four in the morning at nights she slept on concrete. and the days were filled with threats of violence hanging over her. nose and gunfire lives in consumer. markets. and that's arms had a boyfriend who is a policeman but this offer had no protection. plan to file for now. that we know. that we're playing well and if i live i mean to clear cause i'm going full blast them confide. in my god.

they come to me. and that's experiences as a rest of it off far from unique. and beyond the violence is something i have seen worse but the overwhelming sense according to writer and former rest of it back a day of a lost family life it's like living in a family. but you're not part of the family it's like living in a home it's not your home because you know eventually they're going to tell you to get out it's living in fear fear of fear of adult and fear of the unknown the unknown is the future because you here today you don't know if you going to be with that family tomorrow everyone knows that rest of america is a word rarely spoken publicly in haiti today. it has become almost the forbidden subject talked about only by those who campaign to stop it. why are people so

reluctant even to use the word starving it's in haiti and why. people don't want to talk about it exactly because also good says look if you want . enough on restavec. faith i want to. enough of the stuff i want to deal get there least efik post a good way simmo saying. they got steve key if you would pull that lead then the tunica. and so embedded is the rest of it system in haitian culture. that it even takes hold in the sprawling tent cities that are still filled with a pool made homeless by the two thousand and ten earthquake. organizer jackie

creature shows us around this un school boys town conditions. was a good omen but i fail to live. on the outside of a show. e.g. . the camp is filled with children many who have lost their parents and yes quite. starved in makeshift schools try to bring back an air of normality to their lines. but it is a constant struggle against the appalling conditions as this teacher explains to me . about the conditions here and i mean this is a makeshift plastic and. drawing up already rains obviously just walls of holes through the the tent was fitted so the searching water here publishing that i was speaking to in the other classroom those three boys were just chatting with me all the difference had died in the earthquake so. therefore it's

only orphans being looked off to here and what they do eventually. is impossible to tell what was in conditions as bad as these and with so many orphans the dangers of children. elling into lives as rest of x. are so great that the camp overseers send out regular child protection patrols. isaac is a member of one of them. could see it if you see. to live. and the more difficult the conditions the worse of the lives of children who become rest of things.

but. i mean. members of the child protection patrol look for clues the children without parents being exploited in the camp. just tell me you know what one of the things that identifies the rest of the children from among rest of the children. on the mount. in the. media. so i do want. members of the patrol can remove children they think are restaurants but they have nowhere outside the camp to take them. so the patrols are more about being visible and collecting information. on why.

but these problems are not limited to ten cities they are also endemic in the city's crowded and earthquake damaged slums. there is never a shortage of rest of children dragged into this life by conditions elsewhere in the country. decades of poverty and the destruction wrought by the earthquake of two thousand and ten have made the already harsh conditions in port-au prince even worse and yet despite this thousands of haitians make the journey out of the rural areas to the capital almost every week and that's because as bad as things are here there's an even greater lack of resources in the provincial countryside. one of those children is. he lives with his aunt sonia her two children and her

husband roosevelt. all of them are trapped in lives just spiraling downwards. more. liberal in oblivion to. hear you. you got to see why didn't with. the obviously bad laugh. you will look once in a world of good without him you illuminate the. movie do you know year two thousand dies in the. following year when you will move north america will be illegal. if you will soon know where gay so where again. it will be another no one eighty four when they see you do when the avenue. that it. would seem when you have been going to pass you without.

moving. but if geraldo was ever part of these plans the family's collapse into poverty off to be earthquake has changed all that. you know what they were down there on their. team when you got. to know those who are going. to. learn. a lot harder you only want to. do. this every day so yeah they. know. the government doesn't you. know they would. tell a lie come here a lot of them go to me you know who to me because. it's a measure of how insidious the rest of it system is it's so much of it seems to happen

among relatives. and rest of our children are often hidden in plain sight. nine year old smith for example running off along looking for gold still on the tiny rundown street on the outskirts of port au prince. smiths lives in a two room shack with her cousin shelley. who maintains that smith is simply being tools domestic nationals working in them by the we sum up what we have would you visit. the last summer. when many good people will get in one bag and even the women i would. say been fishy w.h.y. even after i've been quite an i.v. you have to live in a fish that we didn't know we didn't have even we could make it a levee. but smith tells a different story in which she is much more than a mere observer of housework done. up to check.

on they assume i'm really really good poorly i always have been move him where you really are. believe. and according to smith her cousin is far from a caring guardian. you could live on but we don't have. the awful bad that you have to put to when i. am back. with what i would but at. the back to be back if you will is the fear but as i have often moving to a different in the past when they let me. let on i doubt we will be so. weak. despite this shirlene denies that she has been responsible for any mistreatment of

smith. the governments in haiti has by the practice of rest of it argues it is no longer tolerated and may not even exist today. will not belive funny. funny back a bottle found almost instant film in this. yeah. ok that mr gas you do fill in the muck you accept the bare ass here. that you feel sayings and then you do what god would this is them with. the. sun existed sun xander where proof exists. some people describe the rest of it phenomenon as a modern form of slavery what do you think non there by that. for those looked. through to be starving so that success. downtown in

port au prince and the earthquake damaged streets can seem full of working children . rest of this is a common sight and with little evidence that there is a. we attempt to regulate all monitor what goes on. why isn't it more of a political priority in this country i think it's because this system is so ingrained into the culture that people become so desensitized to it the haitian ambassador said that haiti is too poor he does not have the resources necessary to combat the system and then plus he said that the system is too in going into the fabric of our culture that it's difficult to eradicate it. america has long been haiti's biggest international fund this year alone it has sense more than twenty seven million dollars to tackle the aftermath of the two

thousand and ten earthquake. america is also the leading international player in the fight against modern slavery yet its commitment to help haiti's chance slaves is undermined by a simple problem of terminology. the rich countries of the north have anti trafficking units and they don't quite grasp that it's all about slavery most of the slaves in the world are trafficked anywhere they're in slave to their own community and it's a shame that it's taken so long for the richest countries to get a grip on this problem and really come to an understanding of it because they're the ones who are most capable of doing something something about it do you not feel lucky. i think with a little international focus and almost no political will or capability in haiti itself the fight to free rest of the children from the chains of slavery is largely left to n.g.o.s. but they have found

a way to erode the system it relies on the most precious and prized commodity of all in haiti education. we have to have men to toe education but until we have men that oh education i think the work of sensitizing the general public or influencing the new generation i think this work is a vital. street corners in early rush hour in port au prince filled with children not working but on their way to school. despite the fact that virtually private in haiti children from even the poor.