Residents of Haiti's gang-plagued capital could enjoy ... overcoming even the most formidable barriers," Guerisme told AFP, wearing a crown of thorns twisted out of barbed wire.

Michel Chataigne hosts a Haitian fashion workshop in Brooklyn, teaching brooch-making and sharing diaspora stories.

"This is exactly the power of art: overcoming even the most formidable barriers," Guerisme told AFP, wearing a crown of thorns twisted ... looting and kidnappings across Haiti have been blamed ...