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Hunger and Rage (Haiti)   [16 images]

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  • An angry woman from the slum of Cité Soleil (Port-au-Prince) shouting and accusing the US together with the United Nations being a cause of the deep poverty and overall misery in Haiti. 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 in the La Saline market, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 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.

  • People fight over food in a food distribution center run by a private Christian organization in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 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 orphan begging for food in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 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.

  • Social and living conditions in Haitian slums like Cité Soleil (Port-au-Prince) are a human tragedy. People live here in the extreme, hardly imaginable poverty, together with pigs surrounded by rotten stinking garbage 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 shouting and protesting against the government on a wild and violent riot in the centre of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 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 to take care of, standing in the door of a shack in the slum of Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 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 house ruins in Port-au-Prince reveal 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 some food for free in front of the Saint Claire Parish in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 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 processing pork intestines after the pig was slaughtered in front of a shack close to the La Saline market, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 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 in the shanty town of Cité Soleil pluck a bird they caught while it is still alive. 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.

  • A queue of children waiting in the food distribution center Saint Claire Parish in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 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 selling 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. 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 feeding his younger brother by rice in the slum of Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 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.

  • Haitian children hanging around in the porch while their mother is working (Port-au-Prince, Haiti). 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 in front of the Presidential Palace in the centre of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 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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