God bless those who help these children:
Unprecedented levels of poverty have driven almost 225,000 Haitian children into slavery. According to Eva DeHart of For Haiti With Love, parents desperate to feed and clothe their starving children are easy victims for child predators.
“Most of those parents are not deliberately selling those children into slavery,” she explained. “They’re selling them to people who promise that those children will eat regularly and have a better life.”
The enslaved children, known as “restaveks,” are taken from poor homes to the homes of families that are less poor. The family takes responsibility for raising the child in exchange for unpaid domestic service.
Source: Poverty forces kids into slavery