Article 5PAWH ‘I don’t see my mum’: Haiti’s earthquake leaves new generation of orphans

‘I don’t see my mum’: Haiti’s earthquake leaves new generation of orphans

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Joe Parkin Daniels in Les Cayes
from World news | The Guardian on (#5PAWH)

The number of children without carers is still not known, leaving them prey to gangs and abuse

Lilian, six years old and alone, still asks when her mother will return from the market on the edge of Les Cayes in southern Haiti.

When last month's earthquake struck, Lilian was at home, occasionally checked on by her neighbours as her mother, Genieve, was selling fruit a few blocks away. When the ground began to convulse, the market partly collapsed. Genieve was hit by falling concrete and buried under rubble. Her death has left Lilian without anyone to care for her.

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