- Restavec
A restavec (or restavek; from the French "reste avec", "one who stays with") refers to a social system in
Haiti in which parents unable to care for their children send them to relatives or strangers living in more urban areas where they receive food and housing (and sometimes aneducation ) in exchange for light housework. In reality restavecs often live in grindingpoverty , enslaved to their "hosts" and seldom receiving an education. The restavec system is considered a form ofslavery .Jean-Robert Cadet vividly recounted his life as a "Restavec" in a book of the same name, published in 1998.
External links
* [http://www.HSKI.org Haitian Street Kids Incorporated] - Charitable organisation providing shelter, guidance and food to restevecs
* [http://www.hope-for-haiti.org Hope for Haiti: Education and grassroots development in rural Haiti]
* [http://www.worldandi.com/newhome/public/2004/january/clpub1.asp Life is tough: children in domestic labor in Haiti] - World & I magazine* [http://www.ahadonline.org/eLibrary/creoleconnection/Number19/restavek.htm RESTAVEK - Legacy Betrays our Need for Healing] - Créole Connection
* [http://www.restavecfreedom.org Jean-Robert Cadet Restavec Foundation] - The Jean R. Cadet Restavec Foundation
* [http://www.mjalbert.com/nonfiction/restavek-the-weight-of-a-word/ Restavek, The Weight of a Word] - mjalbert.com
* [http://www.mjalbert.com/nonfiction/restavek/ Restavek] - mjalbert.com
* [http://switchvert.com/ Switchvert] - Switchvert Pty. Ltd.
* http://www.dwatimoun.org
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