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A12 WORLD NEWS
Monday 15 January 2018

On earthquake anniversary, Haitians trying to rebuild

Promises of new perma- officials, I’d shut down the The United States granted
nent homes have failed U.S. embassy because Temporary Protected Sta-
to materialize and Haiti’s Trump doesn’t respect my tus to Haitian immigrants
economy remains weak, nation,” said Voodoo priest after the disaster, a status
leaving camp residents Brinor Monajean. the Trump administration
with nowhere to go. The camp includes about is revoking after deciding
As a result, the camp is 3,000 temporary shelters that conditions in Haiti had
transforming into a village and tents and about 50 improved enough to merit
as people build cinder- concrete houses, with 100 removal of the special pro-
block homes and try to cre- more under construction. tection.
ate more normal lives. There is a school, police If and when they return to
Associated Press photog- station, church and Voo- their homeland, Haitian im-
rapher Chery Dieu-Nalio doo temple, and the camp migrants will see conditions
visited Caradeux on the is supplied with electricity far different from the first
approach of the quake an- and potable water. years after the quake, but
niversary to document the Mona Leger came to Cara- nowhere close to normal.
life of its residents, who are deux after the quake preg- Phaiton Mackenson, a
In this Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018 photo, construction workers build a selling charcoal, cutting nant with her second child, government port inspec-
concrete roof in the Caradeux refugee camp set up nearly eight hair and pursuing other jobs accompanied by her hus- tor, lives in a temporary
years ago for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake, in Port-
au-Prince, Haiti. Meant to be a temporary home the camp has so they can slowly accu- band and their 4-year-old shelter surrounded by the
morphed into a crowded shantytown where living in a concrete mulate the money to build son. She is 39 now and has beginnings of a concrete
home is seen as a return to normalcy. However the $7,000 price houses. six children. home that he is slowly con-
tag is out of reach for most of the displaced where half the For many, the anniversary Her husband sells chickens structing. His apartment
Haitian population survives on less than $2 a day. of the quake was made and she sells charcoal. was destroyed when the
(AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) more painful by President Together, they earn about quake struck just before 5
By CHERY DIEU-NALIO homes. Donald Trump’s reported $150 a month and they p.m. on Jan. 12, 2010.
Associated Press For many of those left remarks questioning why dream of one day afford- “I am surrounding the shel-
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti homeless, life hasn’t yet re- the U.S. would accept ing a home built of cin- ter with cinderblock walls,”
(AP) — Eight years ago this turned to normal. more people from Haiti derblocks, which can cost he says.
weekend, a magnitude 7.0 In the Delmas district in the and “shithole countries” in about $7,000. “I stopped due to financial
earthquake upended life north of the capital, Port- Africa rather than places “I may have more children, problems, but as soon as I
in Haiti, killing more than au-Prince, Camp Cara- like Norway. only God knows. have money from my work
300,000 people by some deux sprang up as a tem- Trump denied using that My husband and I are fight- I will continue to build it be-
estimates and destroying porary home for 20,000 dis- language. ing to build our home one cause I want to get back
hundreds of thousands of placed people. “If I were the government day,” she says. to normal life.”
He says he wants an in-
Magnitude 7.1 quake hits off Peru, killing at least 1 door toilet, electricity and
a bedroom like he had in
the lost apartment.
LIMA, Peru (AP) — A pow- southwestern Peru. by a fallen rock and the to the affected region to Etienne Acine, a 38-year-
erful earthquake struck off The quake jolted people National Civil Defense Insti- “verify the magnitude of old television and radio re-
Peru’s coast early Sunday, awake as far away as cap- tute said at least 57 people the damage and send the pairman with six children,
tumbling adobe homes ital city of Lima, some 350 were injured — 23 of them needed humanitarian aid.” says he has been living in
in small, rural towns, killing miles (560 kilometers) from in Chala district, a coastal The U.S. Pacific Tsunami the camp for eight years
at least one person and Acari, blocked some roads, area dependent on fishing Warning Center initially and the wooden walls of
leaving dozens injured, of- collapsed adobe homes and mining that is popular warned of that hazardous his makeshift home are
ficials said. The U.S. Geo- in several towns and left with tourists. Photographs waves could hit Peru and rotting. “Living in the shel-
logical Survey said the at least one supermarket posted on social media Chile, but later stated there ter makes me stressed be-
early morning quake had a a jumble of fallen crackers showed evacuated tour- was no longer any tsunami cause the shelter means
magnitude of 7.1 and was boxes and soda bottles. ists sitting outside one ho- threat from the quake. The January 12, 2010 to me,”
centered 25 miles (40 kilo- Arequipa Gov. Yamila Oso- tel before dawn. President quake came four days be- he says. “I want to live in
meters) from Acari in the rio said a 55-year-old man Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said fore Pope Francis was set to a normal house like other
Arequipa department of killed when he was crushed on Twitter he was in route arrive in Peru.q people in the country.”q