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< August 19 2009 at 4:27 PM >
Tiba says...

Zac

What a great uplifting story!

Zac believe it or not I somewhat lived that life too. I was only 6 years old when my father died. My mom became mentally unstable 5, 6 months later.

We were only three siblings and I was the only boy, the youngest of the three.

As there was no one to take care of us (my mom couldn't) so we were slpit up. My 2 sisters went to live with relatives and I stayed with my mom.

After awhile my mom and I moved in with someone who was supposedly to be a family.

Well the whole time we lived there, my mom and I were technically slaves of that household.

While my mother was fulfilling the role of servant, I on the other hand was being a "restavek".

It was like a trade off to have a place to live and to have something to eat.

I remember this particular day, I was maybe 8 years old, when I forgot to do the dishes, that caused me the worse beaten.

Dinner was made my mom and I watched everybody eating dinner while both us were forced to go to bed hungry.

They didi not feed us just to teach us a lesson.

Bu at the age of 8 1/2 to 9, God sent an angel to rescue me, it was a nun. She took me into the convent and raised me and sent me to school.

But I became a grown up, an adult, and a man at the age of 12 when I had decided to work odd jobs while going to schoolto earn a dollar or 2 in order to take care of my mother.

With the help and the guidance of the good Lord, I managed to rise above it all and became the man that I have become today.

I took care of my mother untill she died in the late 70's and I will not change it for the world.

Restavek in Haiti is nothing more than pure "Slavery", which should get rid of if Haiti must have a place in the civilized world.

Restavek, not only it is wrong but it is inhuman, immoral, behond the true meaning of values.

Restavek is about robbing a child of his/her integrity, dignity, and his/her human rights.

Those who don't see anything wrong with rstavek are those who either had/have restavek or had/have friends and relatives with restaveks in their homes.

And I say shame to these people.

The topic is: sir how is haiti a latin country
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Posted by Tiba on August 19 2009 at 4:27 PM



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Dear Lovely Sister, If there are more than one hundred posts on the topic that automatically tells us that many of us express interest in it. It is true that our country has been and for the longest time now going through political turmoil, econom > >
Robert Alexandre, 16-Aug-09 11:19 pm
Dear Lovely Sister, No one said that Haiti`s geographical location has anything to do with its current state of disgrace and shame. I have absolutely no recollections of anyone making such a statement. It is obvious that you are not interested in > >
Robert, 16-Aug-09 11:35 pm
Dear Robert, you are right. I have been rather impatient lately with the bloggers. Because of that I tend to stay away from the blog more and more these days. I cannot stop thinking of the starving children, of the unemployed young men, of the kids w > >
Linda, 17-Aug-09 7:02 pm
Dear Lovely Sister, Let me tell you franckly that i truly truly understand and appreciate your concern. Please don`t get me wrong because of what I am about to tell you and I think you should take it as a piece of advice. You see that Haiti issue > >
Robert, 18-Aug-09 11:21 pm
Linda I read this comment that you posted the other day and I wanted to comment on it but after working a 13 hour shift my mind was running on empty, today was no different but throughout the day at work this matter laid siege to my mind. So I feel i > >
Zac, 19-Aug-09 2:57 am
I can believe you guys are back with this subject. We've discussed it some many times already. The Notebookblogz Haiti Team > >
Notebookblogz.com, 19-Aug-09 11:32 am
Zac What a great uplifting story! Zac believe it or not I somewhat lived that life too. I was only 6 years old when my father died. My mom became mentally unstable 5, 6 months later. We were only three siblings and I was the only boy, the you > >
Tiba, 19-Aug-09 4:27 pm
Zac, I was very moved by your story. And yes, you are right, someone like yourself would never amount to much in Haiti; Even with your beautiful intelligence and wisdom, you would most likely end up unemployed, or driving some kind of truck or car, o > >
Linda, 19-Aug-09 5:33 pm
Tiba I read your story and I relate to the part where you said you would not have changed any of it for the world. I was so traumatized by these experiences that for a long time I suffered from insomnia. Night after night I would lie in bed thinkin > >
Zac, 19-Aug-09 10:26 pm
As you know Linda I'm currently reading "the black jacobins" the book that you suggested. In the book James graphically details the way slaves were treated. The restavec situation is cruel but I agree that it doesn't come as close to the cruel abus > >
Zac, 19-Aug-09 11:31 pm
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