内容摘要：However, protesters have told the BBC that the museum's current building was vastly important.

However, protesters have told the BBC that the museum's current building was vastly important.

In one such area, Wharf Jérémie, almost 200 civilians were killed by a single gang over the space of one weekend earlier in December.In total, as many as 100 gangs are estimated to be operating in the Port-au-Prince area, with boys as young as nine joining their ranks.

And the problem only appears to be growing. According to the UN children's agency, Unicef, the number of children recruited to the gangs has soared by 70% in a year.One of the gang leaders to whom they flock is Ti Lapli, whose real name is Renel Destina.As head of the Gran Ravine gang, he commands more than 1,000 men from his fortified headquarters high above Port-au-Prince.

Gangs like his have exacerbated an already dire situation in Haiti, and are known to slaughter, rape and terrorise civilians.Gran Ravine is infamous for carrying out kidnappings for ransom, a practice which has earned Ti Lapli a place on the FBI's wanted list.

Ti Lapli tells us that he and his gang members "love our country a lot" - but when pressed on the rapes and murders gangs like his inflict on civilians, he claimed his men "do things they weren't supposed to do [to members of rival gangs] because the same is done to us".

The reason children join Gran Ravine is simple, he says: "The government doesn't create any jobs, it's a country with no economic activity whatsoever. We are living on trash, it's basically a failed state."She said she hoped the exhibition would "shed light on my experiences as a visually impaired artist".

She said she wanted to make her work "accessible and relatable to all viewers".A spokesperson for Flowers Gallery said: "As a visually impaired artist, Raffaella's ephemeral, floral works draw viewers into her unique perspective.

"Her pieces capture fleeting moments suspended in persistent vision, where her sight is in constant motion, and images appear only briefly as faint shadows or flickers of light.Ms Raffaella said her work "explores themes of memory, perception, and fragility, inviting viewers to slow down, observe closely, and engage with delicate details that might otherwise go unnoticed".