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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 13 December 2024
1. Women shouting as part of trauma therapy exercise
2. Women touching their heads and shoulders
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 9 December 2024
3. Opening of Mental Health workshops program by UNESCO and other women organizations
4. Various of women listening to speeches
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Eric Voli Bi, Head of UNESCO in Haiti:
"The UNESCO, together with the Haitian National Association of Psychologists, is engaged in healing invisible wounds and providing victims with the tools to rebuild their lives by offering them a safe space—a place where they can express their emotions, share their experiences, and find their inner strength.”
6. Psychologist Esther Josiane Mathelye talking to women
7. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Esther Josiane Mathelye, psychologist:
“Given the gang situation in the country, which forces many people to leave their homes in search of safer places, it becomes stressful for them after spending over 14 to 16 years in a neighborhood where they have already established their lives in the community."
ASSOCIATED PRESS:
Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 13 December 2024
8. Various of women touching their faces and meditating
9. Yolande Day, former radio broadcaster and artist, during interview
10. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Yolande Day, former radio broadcaster and artist:
"I live in the Lilavois area. I can say that I am surrounded by gangs. Not to say that the gangs are my neighbors… I meet them everyday, I talk to them everyday."
11. Close of Yolande Day’s hands
12. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Yolande Day, former radio broadcaster and artist
“They taught me how to control stress, how to laugh when it comes back (the stress) to life, how to deal with it, and also our emotions. They helped us. We didn’t know before these sessions that these exercises really help. The way I arrived, I’m not going back the same way.”
13. Various of women doing therapy exercises
STORYLINE:
A group of women gathered in recent days in Haiti’s capital to participate in workshops aimed at helping them cope with the trauma of daily life in a country plagued by gang violence.
The women tapped their shoulders, arms and head in unison as they listened to calming music.
The UNESCO workshops, in partnership with the Haitian Psychology Association and the Solidarity of Haitian Women Journalists, are geared to give women the tools to address “the invisible wounds."
At the opening of the five-day workshops on Monday, Eric Voli Bi, the UNESCO head of office in Haiti, expressed hope that the workshops would "provide the victims with the tools to rebuild their lives."
In the workshops, women do several exercises using cognitive therapy and meditation to help with trauma and anxiety.
Women and children have been particularly vulnerable to gang violence that surged in Haiti in early 2023 and increased through 2024 when gangs took control of 85% of the neighborhoods of the capital Port-au-Prince.
According to the United Nations, the expansion of criminal group activity in Haiti has contributed to a sharp rise in gender-based violence, including sexual violence, primarily targeting girls and women.
Psychologist Esther Josiane Mathelye pointed out that displacement has also been a significant factor of trauma.
“It is stressful for them to have to leave after 14 to 16 years in a neighborhood where they had a life and a community,” Mathelye said.
AP video by Pierre Luxama
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