Friday, January 22, 2010
One of our staff members in Haiti reports on the bleak living conditions for people displaced by the earthquake:
Shelter is makeshift. A subject of common prayer: "We hope that rain does not fall!" The big majority of the shelters set up so far assure essentially a symbolic role of limitation of territory guaranteeing a minimum of security and of intimacy. That means that the existing shelters do not protect against anything at all, if that would be wind, sun, cold, heat and even less against rain.
Photos: 2010 Evelyn Hockstein/CARE
