Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mission of mercy began almost a year ago: Relocate dozens of abandoned, disabled children to safety in Jamaica from ravaging ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Young people mingle at a displacement camp in Leogane, Haiti. Children area among large number of Haitians who have been forced ...

In Haiti, the western hemisphere’s poorest country, 1 in 10 children will die before reaching age 5 because of plagues like malnutrition. Who, then, can blame destitute Haitian mothers when they so ...

UNICEF’s Executive Director calls on the international community to step up and support humanitarian response and recovery efforts in Haiti as children and families continue to suffer: “Now is the ...

UNICEF says that the recruitment of children by armed groups in Haiti tripled last year as poverty and violence deepens across the troubled Caribbean country.

The head of the United Nations called on Haitian authorities Thursday to do more to protect children from recruitment by armed gangs and for the international community to step up efforts to respond ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Gang violence in Haiti has displaced more than 300,000 children since March, the U.N. children's agency said Tuesday as the Caribbean country struggles to curb killings and ...

Haiti's rampant criminal gangs are luring more children into lives of crime and sexual abuse, as hunger and poverty in the tiny Caribbean nation drive young people to desperation, according to a ...

For more than 25 years, the Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti – headquartered in Chattanooga – has been working in Haiti to raise a healthy generation of Haitian children, who can, in turn, help ...

The U.N. children's agency said that gang violence in Haiti has displaced more than 300,000 children since March. The spike in violence, including killings and kidnappings, began in February with a ...

First graders attend class during summer classes at École National Louis Borno de Léogâne in Léogâne, Haiti. Many of the students were displaced by the gang violence in Port-au-Prince and neighboring ...

Violence against children in Haiti increased by nearly 500% last year, according to a United Nations report, ranking the Caribbean nation as dangerous a place for children war-torn Gaza, the ...