Another Port-au-Prince resident, Kerby, laments that he wakes up most mornings with “no money in [his] pockets”.
It was not always like this. Kerby used to have a business in Port-au-Prince and a house where he lived with his wife and daughter.
But one day in 2022, gang members came to his business demanding protection money.
When he was unable to pay, they came to his home and threatened to kidnap his family. Unable to raise the sum the gang demanded, he took his family and fled to Cap-Haitian.
Cap-Haitian, Haiti’s second biggest city, located in the country’s north, is a safer place to live and Kerby says he can now go outside without coming face-to-face with violence.
But he has lost all of his financial security: “Right now, I don’t have anything.
“I wake up in the morning and if we have sugar in the house, we make sugar water and put a bit of salt in it, just to drink it and stop the pain of hunger.”
But even the price of water, which he buys in plastic bags from a roadside stall, has recently tripled in price.
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