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Hunger and Rage (Haiti)   [16 images]

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  • An angry woman shouts and accuses the US together with the United Nations for being a cause of the deep poverty and overall misery in the slum of Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 22 July 2008. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year and the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger, social and living conditions in Haitian slums (e.g. Cité Soleil) are a human tragedy. The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished strength.

  • Handcarts of the street venders seen in the La Saline market, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 12 July 2008. The economic situation in Haiti is desperate. The informal sector significantly predominate within the poor Haitian economics. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year and the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger, social and living conditions in Haitian slums (e.g. Cité Soleil) are a human tragedy. The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished strength.

  • Haitian people fight over food in a food distribution center run by a private Christian organization in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 8 July 2008. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year and the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger, social and living conditions in Haitian slums (e.g. Cité Soleil) are a human tragedy. The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished strength.

  • An orphan boy begs for food in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 10 July 2008. Haiti is full of orphans. Many parents leave their babies on the street, mainly because they have no food and no sources to maintain large families which they have. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year and the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger, social and living conditions in Haitian slums (e.g. Cité Soleil) are a human tragedy. The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished strength.

  • Pigs lie in the rotten garbage next to the shacks in the slum of Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 9 July 2008. Social and living conditions in Haitian slums are a human tragedy. People live here in the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty, with no electricity, no drinking water, no meals, suffering and dying of diseases which may be easily curable if there was a public health system. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger. The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished strength.

  • People shout and protest against the government on a wild and violent riot in the centre of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 15 July 2008. Haitian administration and the judicial system are (and always have been) higly corrupted, misappropriation of public funds is common. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year and the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger, social and living conditions in Haitian slums (e.g. Cité Soleil) are a human tragedy. The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished strength.

  • An abandoned wife, living alone with a lot of children, stands in the door of a shack in the slum of Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 9 July 2008. Haitian men leave their wifes with no legal obligations, giving them no support at all. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year and the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger, social and living conditions in Haitian slums (e.g. Cité Soleil) are a human tragedy. The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished strength.

  • The bullet holes in the wall and the house ruins seen in the slum of Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 19 July 2008. There have been a lot of violence and military coups in Haiti in the last years. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year and the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger, social and living conditions in Haitian slums (e.g. Cité Soleil) are a human tragedy. The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished strength.

  • Haitian children wait to be given food for free in front of the Saint Claire Parish in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 8 July 2008. Pastor Gérard Jean-Juste runs an educational center here, together with a food supplies distribution. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year and the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger, social and living conditions in Haitian slums (e.g. Cité Soleil) are a human tragedy. The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished strength.

  • Women process pork intestines after the pig was slaughtered in front of a shack close to the La Saline market, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 12 July 2008. The sources of food on Haiti are very limited. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year and the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger, social and living conditions in Haitian slums (e.g. Cité Soleil) are a human tragedy. The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished strength.

  • Haitian kids pluck a bird while it is still alive in the shanty town of Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 14 July 2008. Hunger force them to eat whatever is available with no mercy. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year and the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger, social and living conditions in Haitian slums (e.g. Cité Soleil) are a human tragedy. The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished strength.

  • Haitian children wait in a queue in the food distribution center Saint Claire Parish in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 8 July 2008. All property and food sources on Haiti are highly protected (sometimes by gunmen) due to frequent social storms and lootings. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year and the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger, social and living conditions in Haitian slums (e.g. Cité Soleil) are a human tragedy. The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished strength.

  • A woman sells dried cakes made from a mixture of yellow dirt (sort of kaolin), water and salt in the shanty town of Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 22 July 2008. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year and the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger, social and living conditions in Haitian slums (e.g. Cité Soleil) are a human tragedy. The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished strength.

  • A girl feeds his younger brother by rice in the slum of Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 22 July 2008. Rice is a basic source of nutrition for all Haitians. Rice is almost entirely imported from the US. Haitian farmers can not compete with the low dumping price of the US state-aided rice. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year and the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger, social and living conditions in Haitian slums (e.g. Cité Soleil) are a human tragedy. The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished strength.

  • A Haitian mother works and takes care of her children in the slum of Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 22 July 2008. Children often do not go to school, the system of the public education does not exist, half of the population in Haiti are illiterate. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year and the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger, social and living conditions in Haitian slums (e.g. Cité Soleil) are a human tragedy. The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished strength.

  • An empty tear gas cartridge seen in front of the Presidential Palace in the centre of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 15 July 2008. The UN blue helmets from Nigeria guard the president René Préval. MINUSTAH (installed in Haiti by the UN in 2004) substitute the police therefore they are generally not welcomed by the Haitian population. The overall situation on Haiti gets worse every year and the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food supplies, the population suffer from hunger, social and living conditions in Haitian slums (e.g. Cité Soleil) are a human tragedy. The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished strength.

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