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“Little Eyes”: Haiti’s street youth
Emmanuel Midi meets Ti Je ("Little Eyes"), a streetwise 10 year-old in the Petion Ville market, and follows him home.
Lost in the fire
It hasn’t rained for weeks, things are very dry and light up like matches. Madame Nicolas’s house went down in less than ten minutes.
Back to work in Port-au-Prince
This ruined city is swarmed by people hungry to live. The pain and misery seem to be covered by the sheer will to move on.
“Il n’y a pas grand avenir pour nous”
Ils veulent terminer leurs études maintenant pendant qu’ils sont encore jeunes. Emmanuel avait économisé pendant des années pour pouvoir aller à l'université - et maintenant tous ces efforts sont perdus.
“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.
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.
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.
Jan 15, Part 3: Finding Families
Someone saw me with the camera and asked me to post a message to his family in the United States. His name is Patrick Nertilus. Hope they can see this video.
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