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S U B S C R I B E
Wednesday, 12 January, 2011
Haiti's painful reconstruction drags on
The most visible sign that Haiti’s recovery from the earthquake is painfully slow is the more than 1,200 camps of earthquake survivors. They line roads. They’re tucked into virtually every vacant lot. One sprawls across the plaza in front of the crumpled remains of the presidential palace in Port-Au-Prince. For the year ahead the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission has set a goal of getting 400,000 people out of the camps by the end of the year. WRS’s Jordan Davis visited Port-au-Prince’s largest camp—and he says for the people living there that goal seems impossibly optimistic:
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