A lot of times in Haiti, a place steeped in superstition and voodoo, when a child is born with or develops special needs their entire life becomes an uphill battle. The community rejects them. Their parents are encouraged to discard them or leave them in an orphanage.
Most times the neighbors or other family members will refuse to babysit the child due to the stigma of special needs so one of the parents are forced to stay home with the child on a daily basis. Especially in the case of a single parent, this makes working to earn income impossible. Most parents of special needs children who put them in an orphanage do so in order to be unburdened. So that they can work to provide for the rest of the family out of necessity.
Resources for special needs children are scarce already, so most of these kids lose all hope of ever getting help once put into an orphanage institution. Most never get to a place of thriving, just surviving and then slowly deteriorating. Sitting in the same chair or laying in the same bed day in and day out.
The families of special needs children need options. They need resources and encouragement that they can keep their children and still support the rest of the family. The families of special needs children need to know that they are not the only one.