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On estime que 30 000 enfants vivent dans approximativement 750 orphelinats en Haïti, dont la majorité est financée et gérée par le secteur privé. Selon le gouvernement d’Haïti, 80 pour cent des enfants dans les orphelinats ont au moins un parent en vie et presque tous ont d’autres membres de leur famille. La pauvreté, le manque d’accès aux services de base, et le désir d’offrir une éducation poussent les parents et les aidants à placer leurs enfants dans des orphelinats. Avec un appui adéquat, de nombreux enfants pourraient réintégrer une prise en charge familiale et…
Executive Summary
An estimated 30,000 children live in approximately 750 mostly privately-run and financed orphanages in Haiti. The Government of Haiti estimates that 80 percent of children in orphanages have at least one living parent, and almost all have other family members. Poverty, lack of access to basic services, and the desire to provide an education drive parents and caregivers to place their children in orphanages. With adequate support, many children could return to family- and community-based care, and at-risk families could be strengthened to prevent…
On estime que 32 000 enfants vivent dans des orphelinats en Haïti. Plus de 80 % ne sont pas orphelins. 80 années de recherches démontrent le préjudice causé lorsqu’on élève les enfants dans des institutions. Par conséquent, la plupart des pays du monde en développement ont abandonné ce type de prise en charge depuis plusieurs années.
Le gouvernement haïtien a donné la priorité à la réduction de la dépendance envers la prise en charge en orphelinat pour s’assurer que les enfants peuvent être élevés dans des familles. Par ailleurs, il a mis en priorité la lutte contre la traite des…
According to this report from Lumos, of the estimated 32,000 children who live in orphanages in Haiti, only 20 are percent orphans. Eighty years of research demonstrates the harm caused by raising children in institutions. As a result, most countries in the developed world moved away from this form of care decades ago.
The Haitian government has prioritised reducing reliance on orphanage care, to ensure children can be raised in families. They have also prioritised addressing trafficking in children, another significant concern in Haiti.
However, well-intended donors and volunteers from…
This report, first distributed at the seminar co-hosted by Lumos and USAID on the challenge of institutionalization in Haiti, provides some background information on the effects of institutionalisation as well as the particular situation in Haiti, and draws on existing international legal and policy frameworks in favour of the transition from institutions to community-based services. It includes recommendations on how all stakeholders could work together to implement lasting change for many thousands of children.
This video reveals the adverse conditions in the many unregistered orphanages in Haiti. Eighty percent of children living in orphanages are not orphans. After the earthquake in 2010, numerous orphanages were set up to support children who lost parents in the earthquake; however, most children in these institutions are not there because of the earthquake. Quite often children go to orphanages because they are poor. As children start to adapt to their lives in orphanages, relationships with families are broken. Some directors of orphanages actively prevent parents from…
This document, published by Catholic Relief Services, urges members of the Catholic faith community to consider the best interests of the child when partnering, or “twinning” with parishes in Haiti and undertaking charitable activities. “Twinning,” says the report is the practice of Catholic congregations, or parishes, in the United States partnering with parishes in Haiti and providing support, money, resources, and volunteers to those parishes. These activities often include directing resources toward children in orphanages in Haiti. The problem with this support, says Catholic Relief…
This article discusses findings from the recent Lumos report Funding Haitian Orphanages at the Cost of Children's Rights, stressing the circumstances under which children enter into residential care as well as the prevalence of abuse within the care system.