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There's even a term for these children: restaveks, from the French words "reste" and
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There's even a term for these children: restaveks, from the French words "reste" and
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Aid agencies fear that many "restaveks" - children from poor families who are sent to work as servants in return for their keep - will have been abandoned.
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In theory these children, known as restaveks “lives with others” in Creole are supposed to receive adequate food, shelter, clothing, and access to education from their host families—and some of them do.
The Plight of Haiti’s “Orphans”: Looking Beyond the US Missionary Case « Gender Across Borders 2010
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It comes in the form of what is known as restaveks (ph).
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Many of these children, known as restaveks, do not go to school, are made to do strenuous chores without pay and are often beaten and abused.
BBC News - Home 2011
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The authorities said thousands of those trafficked were sold as servants, known as restaveks, to well-to-do Haitian families.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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The authorities said thousands of those trafficked were sold as servants, known as restaveks, to well-to-do Haitian families.
NYT > Global Home 2010
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In theory these children, known as restaveks ( "lives with others" in Creole) are supposed to receive adequate food, shelter, clothing, and access to education from their host families-and some of them do.
feminist blogs Erin Rickard 2010
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Duarte helped her rescue the girls, known as restaveks, in the slums of nearby Cap-Haitien.
Dose.ca Music briefs Don Lajoie, Canwest News Service 2009
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