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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Evens Sanon and Dnica Coto

Haitian students play drums and strum guitars to escape hunger and gang violence

Copyright 2023 Associated Press. All rights reserved

Woodberson Seïde held his stepsister's hand as they walked through Haiti 's capital on their way to an afterschool music program.

They avoided cars, motorcycles, and territory controlled by the gangs whose predation prompted this week's U.N. Security Council vote for the deployment of a multinational armed force. Once he arrived at the school that hosts the program, 11-year-old Woodberson didn't think much about how he sometimes eats once a day. His family sleeps on the floor of a church, something they've done since losing their home to gangs.

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