Help One Now - Haiti
by Help One Now 100K Lives Impacted Haiti
Haiti Population: 10.17 million (4.3 million under age of 18) Area: 10,715 sq mi Year of Independence: 1804 Orphan Pop...
Population: 10.17 million (4.3 million under age of 18)
Area: 10,715 sq mi
Year of Independence: 1804
Orphan Pop.: 420,000 (have lost one or both parents due to all causes)
Pop. Living In Poverty: 77% (7.8 million). 61.7% living on less than US $1.25/day
Education: 25% secondary school participation, 72% youth literacy rate, 48% adult literacy rate
Health: 62 year life expectancy (up 8 years since
1990), 160,000 people living with AIDS, 64% of population using improved
drinking water sources
Trafficking: Estimated 150,000 – 500,000 children living in domestic servitude, or Restavek (subject to forced labor, beatings, sexual assault and other abuses)
– 2013 Trafficking in Persons Report, Haiti
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