Among the 450 families living in makeshift shelters on a football pitch in the district of Delmas there are 37 other children like Eliassaint who were orphaned or lost contact with their parents on January 12. The camp is now their refuge — a place where they are cared for and protected.
On the streets, however, many thousands more children have been left to fend for themselves in a city where child-trafficking and abuse was rife even before the earthquake closed the country’s schools, destroyed its rudimentary welfare system, left its police force in disarray and sprang 4,000 criminals from prison.
“They’re in danger. They’re at risk of abuse and aggression. They could fall into the hands of traffickers and pimps — especially the girls,” Blemurned Junior, the camp’s senior social worker, said. His fears are shared by leading child protection agencies, which are racing to find those children before criminals do.

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