Recently discovered Haitian rapper

Romario Saintfleur is 17 year old handsome and proud young man from Haiti who aspires to be a famous rapper.

He is a former restavek (the Creole term for children internally trafficked for domestic servitude), but refuses the stigma of this title so, he came up with a new name for his situation, "a childhood with special circumstances". And who can blame him? He took part in the International Organization for Migration (IOM) vocational and micro enterprise training and is now a shoemaker and an aspiring musician.

There are an estimated 173,000 restavek children in Haiti. Through the restavek system, parents unable to care for their children send them to relatives or strangers living in urban areas supposedly to receive care and education in exchange for housework. But the reality is a live of hardship and abuse, practically enslaved by their "hosts", the children seldom attend school.

For more information on restaveks and IOM's work, please visit www.iom.int.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Haiti
• Rap
• restavek
• IOM
• Trafficking
• Exploitation
• Children
• Abuse
• School
• Creole

[juniorjean21]

haiti represent dog i am front petion ville jalouzi nigga

[haytianchico]

that whatz up zoe haiti sak apfet nou la

[mfmix2004]

kot soulye man

[haytianchico]

that whatz up zoe haiti sak apfet nou la

[emiltoutou73]

m fini....epi ou travesel wale...good job ....i know you guys are good and very talented ..keep it up...hip hop promoters dont really know where to discover great talent and opportunities ..just go to haiti.....

[emiltoutou73]

m fini....epi ou travesel wale...good job ....i know you guys are good and very talented ..keep it up...hip hop promoters dont really know where to discover great talent and opportunities ..just go to haiti

[SiXx71x]

wtf is with the fucking camera switches man.. fuck

[CarnivorousCowMan]

@MATTGOGETHER Hmmmm, well that might be due to the fact that you don't speak the language, eh?

[MATTGOGETHER]

@juniorjean21 this shit sucks no hard feelings I cant tell wat hes saying!!!