Plan International Canada 344d ago

“I used to be a beautiful child... But since I got here, I became like a rat,” shares one of three teenage girls whose stories are told in Displaced, a nine-minute documentary set in displacement camps in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Their voices offer a rare glimpse inside a world where survival overshadows childhood and resilience takes on new meaning. After fleeing armed violence, the teens now navigate makeshift shelters, disrupted routines, and lives interrupted. With striking honesty, they describe daily rituals shaped by fear and scarcity – waiting until midnight to bathe in privacy, holding tight to the six books they carried when they ran, and crying at the sight of other children going to school. In their words, resilience isn’t abstract. It’s the determination to learn, the ache of memory, and the instinct to find strength in places marked by danger. Displaced but not lost: This is girlhood under pressure. A crisis seen through their eyes. And a documentary that refuses to look away. #haiticrisis #girlsincrisis