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28-06-2006  Photo Collection  
Cité-Soleil: grinding poverty, relentless violence
Built in the 1960s to house a few thousand workers, Cité-Soleil is now one of the largest shantytowns in the northern hemisphere and a microcosm of all the ills that beset Haitian society: endemic unemployment, illiteracy, the collapse of public services, insalubrity, crime and violence.

© ICRC / Didier Revol / ht-d-00012


Looted and burned police stationWith no police, little or no electricity, no sewer, no shops and access to only the most basic health care and schooling, the residents of Cité-Soleil live isolated from the rest of the country. Thanks to the contacts the ICRC nurtured with weapons bearers during the crisis, a few employees of the waste-collection and water services now venture there in periods of calm.



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