Saturday, May 1, 2010

Haiti, Three Months After The Earthquake



Tensions Rise Over Haiti Tent Camps -- L.A. Times

Three months after the earthquake, schools and businesses want their land back.

Displaced and homeless, the 10,000 earthquake victims crowding the school grounds of the Lycee Jean Jacques are feeling the sting of a new label: unwanted guests.

Administrators and students at the private high school are eager to resume classes after a pause of more than three months.

But they can't as long as the schoolyard, now churned to mud and strewn with trash, remains jammed with thousands of makeshift tents. Residents say they are willing to make way for students, but have no other place to go yet.

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More News On Haiti

Transitional housing slowly getting built in Haiti - -AP
Quake victims homeless, again -- IOL
In Haiti's shattered capital, metal scavengers take to the streets -- Washington Post
In pictures: Life after Haiti quake -- BBC

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