An abandoned wife, living alone with a lot of children, stands in the door of a shack in the slum of Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 9 July 2008. Haitian men leave their wifes with no legal obligations, giving them no support at all. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year and the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger, social and...
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An abandoned wife, living alone with a lot of children, stands in the door of a shack in the slum of Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 9 July 2008. Haitian men leave their wifes with no legal obligations, giving them no support at all. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year and the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger, social and living conditions in Haitian slums (e.g. Cité Soleil) are a human tragedy. The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished strength.
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