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18 images Created 18 Feb 2011

Cap-Haïtien and Shada

It is unfortunate that the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince so dominates news about Haiti, for nestled in the hills of the northwest is Haiti's second city, Cap-Haïtien. It is a beautiful city, much smaller and more peaceful than Port-au-Prince, featuring French colonial architecture resembling that of pre-Katrina New Orleans. However, as in even the most idyllic of settings in Haiti, poverty is eating away at the city's infrastructure and depriving Haitians of a quality of life to which they have a right. In the city's colourful streets, one finds industrious hardworking people as well as the tragic symptoms of socioeconomic breakdown. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Shada, Cap-Haïtien's largest slum where 40,000 people - all doing their best to move forward with their lives - live in unacceptable dysfunctional and unsanitary conditions.
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  • A game of soccer in Cap Haitian, Haiti. January 26, 2008.
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  • A Haitian man smokes a cigarette outside a bar near Cap Haitian’s central market. Haiti, January 26, 2008.
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  • A shoemaker plies his trade in the streets. Cap Haitian, Haiti, January 26, 2008.
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  • A shopkeeper in the central market prepares her shop for opening. Cap Haitian, January 26, 2008.
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  • A woman wheels products to the central market prior to opening. Cap Haitian, Haiti, January 26, 2008.
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  • A cart of products aboard a large wheelbarrow prior to the opening of the central market. Cap Haitian, Haiti, January 26, 2008.
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  • Haitian girls stand outside the Notre-Dame Cathedral after mass. Cap Haitian, January 27, 2008.
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  • A worker carries a heavy load in the central market. Cap Haitian, January 26, 2008.
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  • A gas station security guard in Cap Haitian, Haiti. January 27, 2008.
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  • A water taxi crosses the Mapou river that runs between Cap Haitian and the impoverished community of Shada. Haiti, January 27, 2008.
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  • A Haitian man walks along a bottle-strewn part of the coastline surrounding Cap Haitian, Haiti. January 26, 2008.
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  • Children in the streets of the destitute community of Shada. Cap Haitian, Haiti, January 28, 2008.
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  • Food cooking in the streets of the community of Shada. Cap Haitian, Haiti, January 28, 2008.
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  • A Haitian woman and three of her children in the destitute community of Shada. Cap Haitian, Haiti, January 28, 2008.
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  • A flooded abandoned home in the destitute community of Shada. Cap Haitian, Haiti, January 28, 2008.
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  • Children’s bare feet in the unsanitary streets of the destitute community of Shada. Cap Haitian, Haiti, January 28, 2008.
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  • A naked Haitian boy stands near a public latrine, located in a polluted section of the destitute community of Shada. Cap Haitian, Haiti, January 28, 2008.
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  • A private dwelling in the impoverished community of Shada. Cap Haitian, Haiti, January 28, 2008.
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