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March24, 2010
Village Rapatrie

Last week, I had a possibility to pay a visit to a block named village Rapatrie. This is a zone inside of Cite Soleil, so the horrible earthquake has not hit it too much, but a lot of houses are devastated. I saw a tent city where people make their tents with plastic and sheets. That's so sad to see the way people are living. They never receive any help from the big relief organizations like local one. They have problems for water, food, shelter, health care, etc. They tell me when it's raining it is a big challenge, because inside their plastic shelters there is much water with mud. You can see babies are sleeping in the mud, and young boys are playing dominoes. That's really lamentable. There were two churches there that are broken down during the tremor and some schools too. I think those people really need help and need to have people thinking of them, and there are about 250 people are living in that tent city. They grow plantains, sugar cane, and mangoes to survive.

That area is not developping yet because not too many people are interested in helping there. They have told tme, it should be great to find some organizations thinking and helping them with whatever.

Report is written by Marcel