Haiti: One Year Since The Earthquake



Haiti Earthquake One Year On: The Squalid Tent Cities Where Rape Gangs And Disease Run Rife -- The Daily Mail

* Haiti remembers its dead with two day memorial
* 1.2m still trapped in squalid tent cities
* Charities struggle with cholera epidemic
* Bill Clinton jets in to join commemorations

From the air they form a neat patchwork of grey and blue, nestling between rundown factories and crumbling slums.

But on the ground these sprawling tent cities are a fetid mass of humanity where cholera and crime run rife.

A year since a cataclysmic earthquake levelled much of Haiti, little has changed for the 1.2million residents still scraping an existence in these squalid refugee camps.

Survivors have been further blighted by an outbreak of the deadly water-borne disease cholera. The illness has struck 155,000 since October, killing 3,651.

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