2012年1月12日星期四

Haiti earthquake: two years on, the country is still struggling to recover – in pictures


 Thousands of Haitians are still displaced, living in camps, amid rubble and squalid conditions while the government says it has only received half the aid that was promised

A view of the damaged cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

A girl searches her family belongings, packed in baskets kept ready to leave – moving from one camp to another is common
A young girl walks past an abandoned helicopter at a camp set up for displaced people

The market place in Port-au-Prince
A young man at the site of a camp that was pulled down by the authorities near Port-au-Prince airport

Two years on earthquake debris is still not cleared in Port-au-Prince
A school assembly at the Academy for Peace and Justice

Beaubin camp residents show pictures of family members killed in the earhtquake
Haiti's first free secondary school, the Academy of Peace and Justice, is supported by Hollywood stars and provides education for hundreds of children from Port-au-Prince's biggest slums

Saoudit Augustine, 7, and Clishnaika Pierre, 5, in the Place de La Paix camp for displaced people. The camp is built on what used to be a football pitch, home to the Black Eagles football team


A woman walks through the Beaubin camp, with president Michel Martelly's name written across her t-shirt

School children walk past collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince

A street vendor in Port-au-Prince
Children play near their family's makeshift huts in the Champs de Mars tent city
A young woman in the Boyer Park in Port-au-Prince. More than half a million Haitians are still homeless