Thursday, November 24, 2011

Haitian kids exploited by tradition – The CNN Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery - CNN.com Blogs

Haitian kids exploited by tradition – The CNN Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery - CNN.com Blogs: A Grammy Award-winning musician and actor is using his star power to help rescue children being exploited in Haiti, a nation founded by freed slaves.

In a Freedom Project documentary, Common shines a light on the plight of the Restaveks, the estimated 300,000 children working as domestic servants in Haiti.

The United Nations says the deeply rooted practice is a form of modern-day slavery.

Common said, "I just felt like I was entering another place, another world I had never experienced, and I really had to prepare my mind to be in it."