The sad fact that parents sell their children to orphanages and human traffickers floats between the extreme of abuse and privilege of their community. If they need the child back for chores and such, they get a loan and buy them back. (Disclaimer: this does not include every orphanage in the world. Qualify where the children come from.)
In Haiti, child slaves are called Restaveks. Restaveks are divided between orphanages who oper-ate based on international adoptions which are very expensive. International adoption increases the value of children and young teenage woman . Unlucky restaveks are sent to the inner cities such as Port-au-Prince. This creates a highly insecure and unstable environment where girls , no matter what age, are abused regularly. If they run away from the family but are then found, beat-ings occur.
Low literacy rate, contrasting Power Distance, a collectivist culture, high Masculinity, and a High Uncertainty Avoidance, describes this third world country, located at the foothills of the United States of America.
Thus USAID wants to solve all problems awarding on March 5, 2012, a $22.5 million grant to Cooperation Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) to be completed by March 4, 2017. The objective was to provide safety and security of children, women and youth in Haiti by de-creasing the incidence of human rights abuses and expanding access to treatment and care. Usually when massively large nonprofits make these grants, the grantees issue a salary increase for them and their employees. This grand display of generosity is thereby passed on to the project being implemented in place-the-name-of-any-country-here. Very little is actually accom-plished.
The OIG found that in the first 18 months of the program, CARE did very little. One thing you must know: when serving a sensitive population such as Haiti's Restaveks, timely implementa-tion is essential. Know that we are looking at the endless abuse of moving human capital from Haiti to the Dominican Republic and back. If you look at the organizations located in Haiti near the border, the smell of dead seafood lingers  in the air.
CARE blames the wording of the mission and every bit of excuse they could muster.
CARE did not award grants to local organizations in Haiti. Only 8 percent was distributed. More than 50% of the communities listed in the CARE Manifesto were not targeted communi-ties. This agrees to first hand experience finding the upper class of Haiti benefitting from pro-grams (money) that were essentially for those in need. This happens over and over and over and over again.
CARE was asked to "cease all program activities."
First, go there. It's a volatile state but you can bribe someone to get you beyond the safe borders of a cloistered mission trip meant to illustrate the bounty of Haiti - get real.
Secondly, find an underserved community - mostly women only with children hanging around that are in need. If you stay there long enough you will witness men coming from PaP dressed so fine, who want a one night stand. Money and a night out? What women wouldn't want that? Sadly, the child from these unions are easily discarded or die from lack of nutrition. Provide meals for these women and children - only for them. Hire a trustworthy man to guard their site and visit them once or twice a month. Watch the community grow.
Studies show that once women gain an ounce of confidence, they are able to get jobs, say no to the wanderlust of man, and build their community.
