Tents urgently needed as rainy season looms
PORT-AU-PRINCE–Every night since losing her home to the devastating earthquake that reduced much of this country to rubble, Marie Carole Joseph, 54, has slept under open skies with not even a bed sheet for protection.
“No one has said anything about a tent to me yet, but if they have some I would like one,” says Joseph, a mother of three.
The Haitian government is urgently requesting 200,000 family-sized tents be shipped to the partially destroyed nation for use as emergency shelters for its burgeoning homeless class.
The international community has not been quick to respond.
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Haiti: 900,000 living without a roof
Tents urgently needed as rainy season looms
PORT-AU-PRINCE–Every night since losing her home to the devastating earthquake that reduced much of this country to rubble, Marie Carole Joseph, 54, has slept under open skies with not even a bed sheet for protection.
“No one has said anything about a tent to me yet, but if they have some I would like one,” says Joseph, a mother of three.
The Haitian government is urgently requesting 200,000 family-sized tents be shipped to the partially destroyed nation for use as emergency shelters for its burgeoning homeless class.
The international community has not been quick to respond.
Continues >>
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