This picture did not capture the crowd of kids I had hanging off of me the whole time in this camp very well (they're all the way at the end there), but it gives you an idea of how close together the tents are, so I left it in.
A random restaurant in Petionville I noticed today for the first time.
Rubble porn, I like to call it.
A mode of transport, and Justine's niece's name (Daphne)
Trash and rubble. These piles do occasionally get cleared.
A drive-by shot from the car of a camp.
Until recently this structure had plants growing out of those containers on the left hand side of the second floor balcony.
Heading up a big hill to a camp. The contrast in the kids' reactions to us between this camp and the one on the main road (the first picture above) was pretty funny. Obviously not a lot of white people make it up this hill, because we had a lot of kids running, screaming, and crying when they saw us.
But not these kids who gladly posed for me while carrying pieces of cement on their heads.
The view on the way back down the big hill.
Two things: (1) that Daphne bus is one sweet ride! (2) Are those kids carrying concrete to clean out a destroyed house? Are most of the houses just sitting as is, in a destroyed heap, or are they ordering petits to rebuild the country?
ReplyDeleteHaha. Yes, Daphne is totally a sweet ride! Basically the Haitian public transport here would make Guineans drool. Why waste time with a 9 place when you could have those huge buses?? Good question about the kids. I'm not really sure what they were doing with it. I think they lived in the camp and were carrying it back there, so maybe it was being used in their tent(s) somehow. In terms of the houses, it's very situational and usually depends on how much damage was done and what means the person who owns it has. Unfortunately people don't seem to order around petits like they did in Guinea, which is a shame. They could have this city cleared of rubble in no time! Maybe I'll suggest that to Jesse who is in charge of creating building codes...
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