Haitian Gangs Exploit Hunger to Recruit Displaced Children

In Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, children are being targeted by gangs exploiting desperation in displacement camps. With over 1.4 million people forced from their homes, these camps—meant to protect the vulnerable—have devolved into breeding grounds for exploitation. Gangs prey on hungry and homeless children, offering food in exchange for loyalty, as families struggle with malnutrition and overcrowding in squalid shelters. Local residents describe conditions so dire that survival itself has