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Life and death in Cite Soleil
I watched the people in the front row get their legs caught in the barbwire as the crowd walked over them. A good video journalist would have kept filming.
“There isn’t much of a future for us”
Emmanuel and Johnny want to finish their education now, as young men. They saved up for years to be able to go to university - and now it is all gone.
There is water; there is hope.
I decided to hang out at camp and talk with people for a while. People don’t want to talk about themselves. They are not interested in complaining - they want to know if there is help coming or not.
“Asking the earth to be still”: Carefour des Brosses
They sing their souls out, asking that the earth not to tremble again. They clap their hands so they can heal, shout out their prayers that help will reach them soon.
Tremors, help and thirst
Another journalist told me that he saw a lot of looting and police activity. I didn’t see any, but this place is big.
Surviving in Haiti: Ste-Therese
But what surprises me is how well kept it is, considering there is no latrines, garbage disposals, or anything else. Some of these camps are well organized socially - people help each other and work together.
Port-au-Prince comes back to life
The city has changed in the last two days. Before, people were in shock and walked around like zombies. But now life is picking up again: you can see women selling food in certain areas, and people starting to move to the country with what’s left.
Canadian Embassy
While waiting for my driver to show up, I was watching the moody soldiers barking at the tired survivors desperately trying to emigrate and not understanding the principles of “please stay behind the line sir”.
Inside a disaster, stories from the film crew
Last night was a big night for Stefan Randström and Simon Paine. As I was telling you in my last blog, Stefan and Simon where waiting for the rescue team at the Caribbean Supermarket to pull out survivors.
Tensions mount at Carribean Market
It is hard to imagine that there might dozens of people still alive under this pile of concrete slabs. It is a long shot but people still hope. There was relatives of the “survivors to be” waiting there, there was hope in their tired eyes.
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