Saturday, May 15, 2010

Tent cities

This picture definitely doesn't do it justice. Just as Port-au-Prince is basically one huge shantytown, there are these tent cities all over the city.

They are filthy, disgusting, modern day ghettos. Few of them have running water or toilets. There's a hallway about 3 feet wide between tents that are stacked side-to-side. Sometimes there will be a ditch in the hallway where people "relieve themseleves." There is drug-dealing and violence dominating these cities.

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