Cite Soleil
Oct 17 2005, Bhawana Negi

In the midst of poverty and violence, the life of children living in Haiti’s capital has been reduced to nothing. Armed gangs use the children as messengers, drug dealers and even as killers.
In Cite Soleil, which is one of the poorest slums of the...

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