(24 Jul 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port Au Prince - 23 July 2022
1. Children in playground of Saint-Louis Gonzague School, where hundreds of children and adults are sheltering after fleeing a gun battle between rival gangs
HEADLINE: Hundreds shelter in Haiti school to escape gang war
2. Children laying down mattresses on the floor, someone sleeping on concrete
ANNOTATION: Hundreds of children and adults sheltered at a school in Haiti's capital Saturday, fleeing from shooting between two rival gangs.
3. Children playing on mattresses on the floor
ANNOTATIONS: In recent weeks, gang violence has caused dozens of deaths and destroyed homes in violence-wrecked Cite Soleil.
4. Children playing games on the floor
ANNOTATIONS: Children sleep on small mattresses in classrooms that have been converted into dormitories.
5. Child cleaning other child's face
6. Baby crying on the floor
ANNOTATION: Many of the children sheltering at the school came without their parents.
7. Famille Kizito NGO coordinator Francisco Seriphin organizing donations at the school-shelter
ANNOTATION: A year after the unsolved assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, gang violence has grown worse in Haiti.
8. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Francisco Seriphin, Famille Kizito NGO coordinator:
"The children said that the situation had worsened on Saturday 16 July, that they couldn't find water to drink, that they couldn't find food, that they wanted to go out, so on Sunday we went to take them out."
9. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Michelet Jean, 16, gang shooting victim:
"I was hit during the shooting. If I had gone to school, I wouldn't have been shot."
10. 16 years old Michelet Jean at the school shelter
11. Refugees asking for medicine from NGO staff
ANNOTATION: Many people have tried to flee a country that seems to be in economic and social freefall.
12. Various of women washing clothes
ANNOTATION: U.N. humanitarian agencies have said it is too dangerous for them to get help to people trapped in Cite Soleil.
Hundreds of children and adults sheltered at a high school in Haiti's capital Saturday after fleeing shooting in a neighborhood where fighting between two rival gangs in recent weeks has caused dozens of deaths and destroyed homes.
Francisco Seriphin, general coordinator for the religious community group Kizito, said 315 people had taken refuge in the Saint-Louis de Gonzague school, which is in the Delmas district neighboring the violence-wracked Cite Soleil neighborhood.
Classes are out for summer vacation, and classrooms at the high school have been converted into dormitories, where teenagers, children and toddlers sleep on small mattresses provided by the nonprofit group.
Some adults are sleeping on the ground without mattresses.
Young people chatted and joked in the schoolyard Saturday, while others played soccer and basketball or jumped rope.
Seriphin said many of the children sheltering at the school came without their parents.
Some youngsters stood in line waiting to give information about fathers and mothers, some who are missing and others who the gangs prevented from leaving Cite Soleil.
"We need a lot of help," said Jean Michelet, a 16-year-old who said he was wounded on the day that the gang battles erupted in early July.
"I was home on the day the war started. It was a lot of shooting. A bullet went through the roof and it hit me in the head," he said.
He said a nun took him to a hospital to have the injury treated.
Michelet said a lot of people had been killed during the gunbattles. "The situation is really bad," he said.
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