Haiti: Camp life

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

A woman at the front of a small shop in the tent home of a neighbour in the Petionville Camp at the edge of Port au Prince, Haiti. Photo: ACT/Paul Jeffrey
A woman scrubs out a cooking pot in front of her tent home in the Petionville Camp. Photo: ACT/Paul Jeffrey
A woman in the doorway to her tent home in the Petionville Camp at the edge of Port au Prince, Haiti. With some 50,000 residents packed onto what was once a golf course, Petionville is the largest of hundreds of camps hosting more than a million people left homeless by the January 12, 2010 quake. Photo: ACT/Paul Jeffrey
A woman in the Petionville Camp stands under a banner that reads "Protecting women is everyone's job." Chronic complaints of gender-based violence in the camps have provoked camp managers to renew their efforts to ensure the safety and security of women and girls. Photo: ACT/Paul Jeffrey
A woman in the Petionville Camp is interviewed by police officials after lodging a domestic violence complaint against her husband. In the close quarters of the camp, frustration at lack of employment and other opportunities contributes to tensions, according to Pascal Rwatangabo (right), a Rwandan officer with the United Nations MINUSTAH police force. Photo: ACT/Paul Jeffrey
A woman pushes a wheelbarrow of trash she has collected in the Petionville Camp at the edge of Port au Prince, Haiti. Photo: ACT/Paul Jeffrey
A boy cleans up rubbish in a gutter in the Petionville Camp. Attending to camp hygiene has been given even more importance since cholera began infecting - and killing - Haitians in late 2010. Photo: ACT/Paul Jeffrey
A girl sweeps one of the dirt paths that wind through the Petionville Camp. Photo: ACT/Paul Jeffrey
A woman pushes a wheelbarrow of household debris she has collected in the Petionville Camp. Photo: ACT/Paul Jeffrey
A man breaks apart concrete from what was once the Italian Embassy in Port au Prince, Haiti. Destroyed by the January 2010, earthquake, the building is now a source of salvaged building materials for enterprising recyclers. It sits in the middle of the Narret Camp, Port au Prince. Photo: ACT/Paul Jeffrey
Children play soccer in what was once the swimming pool of the Italian Embassy in Port au Prince, Haiti - a convenient playground for children who live in the Narret Camp for homeless quake survivors, which surrounds the rubble. Some 1,000 homeless residents of the camp have been assisted by the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance. Photo: ACT/Paul Jeffrey
Remilliene Morris, a 52-year old earthquake survivor, sits in her temporary shelter in the Petionville Camp. After her rented home collapsed in the quake, Morris sent two of her four children to live with relatives in the north of the country. She receives donated food and works occasionally in a cash for work program to find the school fees for her other two children. Photo: ACT/Paul Jeffrey
Gina Morin stands in front of her new home, downhill from the Narret Camp for homeless quake survivors in Petionville, Haiti. Morin hopes to finish and move into her new home at the beginning of February along with her husband and six-year old daughter. Photo: ACT/Paul Jeffrey