Many children have left their own homes in Haiti to work as domestic servants in other households. They're known as restaveks — from the French, meaning "to stay with."

Parents were promised that their children would attend school and receive compensation in return for their live-in work. But many of these children end up in domestic servitude with no way out. There are perhaps hundreds of thousands of children in Haiti living in what many call slavery.

Peggy Wehmeyer spoke with Joan Conn from the organization Restavek Freedom.

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