"The rainy season is looming. When you ask people who live in these places, on the streets, in tents made of pieces of tissue, and with plastic, What are they panicking about the most right now? They all have the same answer, “Rain.” Myriam's newsletter, Feb 24, 2010
"We decided to go down to the encampment and interview individuals, and get more specific information. We learned that the Mayor had arrived and kicked them off the property. He said they could move behind that piece of land, to a ravine." Holli's newsletter, Feb 18, 2010
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“Sometime when I am too tired and can’t do anything, she hits me all over my body with wood or cable, anything she finds. I am always sick, as you can see my throat came big like a balloon. I have never been going to see a doctor for that. I like to smile, play soccer with an empty bottle in the street.” Jocenel Lubain
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Dapheca is 7 years old. She was born Port au Prince, and lives in one of its poorest slums. She stopped going to school in 2006. “In a week, we are eating two days, because only my mother is doing something, and that is not enough. The good meal we have is every Sunday….And after Sunday we can have three days without eating.”
“It happens very often that we go a day without eating solid food. I would like to anybody interested in helping me to know that I would like him or her to become a friend for me. I would like him or her help me out of this poverty.” Claudette Mathieu
“I would like to have a bed to sleep. I don’t know how to read and write. My mother is dead and my father is far away. I don’t eat regularly. Sometimes I sleep with no food. Some other times, I eat bread with sugar water. I don’t have clothes, sandals, shoes and underwear.” Ricalande Matheus
“We use candle every night, but we often don’t have money to buy it. Sometime we sleep in the darkness. Me I have always headache, fever. I love to tell history and the truth. I would like to become a famous person, a doctor.” Leonise Cadet
“I never went to school. My parents are dead. Without having much to eat, it is so hard to live. I love to dance and tell stories. I want to become a nurse.” Stephanie Franel
“I can sleep only for two or three hours. I sleep in the house on a piece of carpet. Sometimes I spend the night on my feet when it’s raining, because I sleep under the bed. When the rains stop I have to clear the water out from the floor where I sleep. I have a dream. I would like to become a doctor.” Christmarie Dorelien
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“Sometimes I am going to bed without having anything all day. The people get sick here because they are staying close to the dirty canal. I would like to become a secretary or computer scientist. My talent is singing.” Bethchedade Henry
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