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Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 16 September 2025
1. Various of Kettia Louis Charles walking down the internally displaced camp
2. Kettia entering the tent
3. Kettia lifting the tarp
4. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Kettia Louis Charles, mother displaced from Solino:
“This is where I have been living since I left Solino. This is the situation I am living in now. I get water in my house when it rains and I cannot sleep.”
5. Kettia’s son sitting on the floor
6. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Kettia Louis Charles, mother displaced from Solino:
“When they (gangs) gave me a break to visit our home, we did not find anything. I lost my future. The only thing we saved was the life of my husband, my life, and the lives of my children. My hands are empty. I have three children, two boys and a girl, and on top of it, I have one in my belly.”
7. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Kettia Louis Charles, mother displaced from Solino:
“Sometimes, when they send food to the camp, there is a fight to get it. Because it is not sufficient, I am pregnant, so I cannot get in the middle of it. Fight for it.”
8. Kettia touching her belly
9. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Kettia Louis Charles, mother displaced from Solino:
“When I was living in Solino, I can’t say I was living 100%. About 90% of the time, I was fine because I was at home. I wasn’t in the situation I am now. I was at home, doing business, my kids were going to school, and I slept comfortably – the situation I am in now is totally different. It’s not good at all. When I was in Solino, things were better. Now, I am living a catastrophic life – life is not good at all.”
10. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Kettia Louis Charles, displaced woman, mother:
“Life is very complicated for me. I am asking for help so that I can get out of this situation. Since I got here, it has been very humiliating."
11. Kettia wiping tears from her face
12. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Kettia Louis Charles, mother displaced from Solino:
“All I dream about now is leaving this camp so that my children can go to school, graduate from high school, and be useful to society.”
13. Kettia walking down the displaced camp
STORYLINE:
Kettia Jean Charles is unsure whether she is seven months pregnant or just days away from giving birth.
The 34-year-old fled her home last year along with her husband and three other children, and the family has been on the run as gang violence consumes Haiti’s capital and beyond.
Violence has already left more than one million people homeless and hungry.
"This is the face of Haiti today. A country at war, a modern-day Guernica," Laurent Saint Cyr, leader of Haiti’s presidential transitional council, told the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Thursday.
"Just a four-hour plane ride from here, a human tragedy is unfolding," he said. "Every day, innocent lives are extinguished. Entire neighborhoods are disappearing."
His plea to the international community for help came as Haitians, like Charles and her family, wonder if they’ll survive the spiraling crisis.
In early November, she and her family fled their home in Solino, one of the last communities in Port-au-Prince that successfully fought off gangs until it couldn’t anymore.
"I used to sleep in a bed, had my own business, and my children went to school. Now, I am living this catastrophic life," Charles said.
The family sleeps on plastic sheets padded by grey blankets provided by the U.N.
Their home is four plastic sheets that serve as walls with a plastic tarp for a roof. If it’s sunny, they roast.
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