Flee or Stagnate: Haiti’s Youth Face Impossible Psychological Dilemma

December19, 2025
Magdala Louis
Lucnise Duquereste

Trapped by shuttered schools, few jobs, violence and closed borders, a generation of Haitians is suffering a devastating mental health crisis.

Makeshift tents fill a camp set up by people displaced from their homes by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)