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More than 1300 tent camps are housing 1.3 million people in Haiti displaced by a powerful earthquake. The quake killed more than 200,000 people and destroyed or damaged more than 230,000 buildings and houses.
Seven months after the earthquake devastated Haiti on January 12, more than one million survivors continue to live in appalling conditions, with inadequate sanitation, limited access to services and food shortages.
Conditions in many of the camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) around the capital, Port-au-Prince, are extremely critical. Residents continue to live in shacks held up by rags and poles. There are no schools or electricity, sanitation is poor and the water barely drinkable. When heavy rain falls, garbage rushes through the camp.
The situation in unofficial camps is even worse. Throughout the city, unofficial camp residents receive little or no care from large aid organizations or international coordinating bodies; many have even been told leave the camps but have not been provided with alternative housing.
- Camp "Benediction". Located at Caradeux, a barren plateau in Port-au-Prince’s Delmas 75 district.
- Ahmand Manuela and her four children.
Camp "Comite de Crise Terrain Toto"
- Aliex Bathol & mother Sylvanie Michel.
Camp "Benediction"
- Left to right: Isarak (1 yr), Witu Samang (8 yr) and Imga Cadel (2 yr).
Camp "Benediction"
- Isarak, waiting for his mother...
- Left to right: Natale (17 yr), Fabien (3 yr), Lofan Stafan (3 yr), Madam Maxin Joseph & Malane (7 yr).
Camp "Benediction"
- Astride Astrek, 7 years
Camp "Comite de Crise Terrain Toto"
- Filera, Wasna and Kilmena, together they have 13 children, all from one father. The father died one week before I took this family-portrait, at age of 56 years.
- Nelta, 12 years
Lost her father in the earthquake
- Makila (19 yr) and her two children Robinson (3 yr) & Isara (2 yr)
- Ifna, 3 years
Camp "Comite de Crise Terrain Toto"
- Roby Vill and his wife Jeana, their children Rodline (10 months), Jasmine (9 yr) and Wilby (5 yr)
Unofficial camp, near Delmas 75 district
- Tony Jean (28 yr) with his wife Beljose and son Matson (1 yr)
- Madam Debonne and her two children Samos (6 yr) and Sofoni (2 yr). Camp "Benediction"
- Camp "Benediction". Located at Caradeux, a barren plateau in Port-au-Prince’s Delmas 75 district.
- Centre d’encadrement psycho social pour enfant deminus el ‘ Haiti
- Centre d’encadrement psycho social pour enfant deminus el ‘ Haiti
- Centre d’encadrement psycho social pour enfant deminus el ‘ Haiti
- Centre d’encadrement psycho social pour enfant deminus el ‘ Haiti
- Fouiri Christian
- Fouiri Christian
- Fouiri Christian
- Fouiri Christian
- Fouiri Christian
- Fouiri Christian
- Nazaire Ondhiya
- Fouiri Christian
- Salvation Army clinic at Camp “Delmas 2”
- AMG projects cash-for-work and clinic
- Church, Camp “Delmas 2”
- Church, Camp “Delmas 2”
- Church, Camp “Delmas 2”
- l'Athlétique d'Haïti
- Cash-for-work in Cité Soleil
- Carpenter, working on prefab houses at Maxima S.A.
- Eduard Dany, sewer at Maxima since 2005.
Sewing the inside of coffins
- Coffins for children...
- Leó Ancèvre, guard at Maxima S.A.
Cabinet & Coffin manufacturing, Port au Prince
- Guard at Maxima S.A.
Cabinet & Coffin manufacturing, Port au Prince
- Camp "Bobby"
- Camp "Benediction". Located at Caradeux, a barren plateau in Port-au-Prince’s Delmas 75 district.
- Camp "Benediction". Located at Caradeux, a barren plateau in Port-au-Prince’s Delmas 75 district.- Between hope and fear