I certainly do not want for my posts to be focused on the negative aspects of Haiti but just wanted to share briefly about the reality of the situation. There are UN troops stationed on everywhere likely with the "keeping the peace" aim.
Since rainy season has now arrived, the sad tents made of sheets as shown above are simply not cutting it. As one can imagine the rain just spews into these individuals homes providing absolutely no protection from the elements. And if a family is fortunate enough to have a tarp or water resistant material for a shelter they now have to worry about the ground beneath them washing away.
There are more buildings destroyed than one could have imagined. All the media coverage did not emphasize exactly how far reaching this destruction was. Builings were cracked and destroyed not only in Port au Prince but even the surrounding rural areas...no one was untouched in some form or another especially considering Port au Prince is the whole nation's hub for all activity. Every so many feet there are piles of rubble and every so many feet a building completely collapsed. The part that I cannot seem to get out of my head is that these building remnants are grave sites to so many. There is no doubt that due to the way the builings crumbled there must be thousands whose bodies were and never will be uncovered.
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