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 Hundreds of displaced families live perilously in a single file of flimsy shanties planted along the median strip of a heavily congested coastal road here called the Route des Rails. Hundreds of families live on the median strip of a road in the Port-au-Prince area. READ MORE
 Kesia Damas complains every day about losing her favorite teacher. Mr. B introduced her to drama, taught her art and inspired her to dream of a film career far more glamorous than this dusty village. Backstage, Kesia Damas, 17, watched the performance of a play she wrote in Anse à Galets. A teacher who inspired her fled Haiti. READ MORE
 Six months on, football star inspires children UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Lionel 'Leo' Messi visits with young people in Haiti to help draw attention to the situation of children six months after the 12 January earthquake there.  Julie, her face a grimace of anguish, waits with her five children for a
ride to their next shelter, to where more than 1,000 homeless Haitians
have been ordered to go as hurricane season ramps up. Pictured: July 24 2010 photo shows a view of Camp Corail, located about 20 miles (32km) from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Refugees living in unsanitary conditions alongside the roads, are packing up their belongings and moving to this site set up by the UN.  Israel's Cabinet agreed to send a group of police officers to Haiti to maintain public order.The 14 officers will assist the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, which is working to uphold order and stabilize the area following January's earthquake. The quake killed more than 100,000, left hundreds of thousands injured and damaged the homes of some 3 million people. READ MORE  July 24 2010 photo shows a view of Camp Corail, located about 20 miles (32km) from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Refugees living in unsanitary conditions alongside the roads, are packing up their belongings and moving to this site set up by the UN. The rains and winds expected to Haiti could exacerbate the already precarious situation of displaced persons camps. READ MORE
 Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean is set to announce his candidacy for president of Haiti, according to a report in an Ottawa-Gatineau newspaper. Citing "a source close to the government" in Port-au-Prince, Le Droit reported that Mr. Jean is only waiting for paperwork to be finalized by next week's deadline. READ MORE
 The sun was beating down on the rocky cactus plain when men with machetes came for Menmen Villase, nine months pregnant, shoved her onto her bulging stomach and sliced up the plastic tarp that sheltered her and her four children. READ MORE
 A summer storm ripped through tents and sent solar-powered streetlights crashing down at the government's primary relocation camp for people left homeless by the January earthquake.Pictured: A boy walks in front of a structure that collapsed due to heavy rain at the Corail refugee camp, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Monday, July 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) |
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