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Most of the 33 children
that Americans have tried to bring in outside Haiti, apparently without
authorization, "still have family, said today that the charity receives
around Port-au-Prince .
"Most children still have
family," said Patricia Vargas, director of the regional center of the
SOS Children's Village which hosts children from the arrest Saturday of
the group of Americans near the Dominican border .
Ms. Vargas said into that
information from the Institute of Social Welfare, which handles Haitian
adoptions and has temporarily entrusted these children to SOS Childrens
Village.
"In talking with older
children aged over seven years we have learned that their parents are
alive. Some gave us addresses and phone numbers," he said Ms. Vargas.
A girl, aged a few
months, maybe seven, was hospitalized Saturday night "because she
suffered from malnutrition," she added.
The center, which has
worked for several years in Haiti, is not an orphanage but welcomes
children temporarily lost, has made it clear that the area director for
Central America and Caribbean organization devoted to the welfare of children. Two hundred forty
children are currently housed in this center, located in
Croix-des-Bouquets, a poor town on the outskirts of the Haitian capital.
