A Haitian mother works and takes care of her children in the slum of Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 22 July 2008. Children often do not go to school, the system of the public education does not exist, half of the population in Haiti are illiterate. 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...
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A Haitian mother works and takes care of her children in the slum of Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 22 July 2008. Children often do not go to school, the system of the public education does not exist, half of the population in Haiti are illiterate. 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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