Carrefour Mom and Baby
On 14 July 2010, Guylene Sant Hubert holds her 13-month-old daughter, Guyleneda, inside their makeshift home at Carrefour Aviation, a tent camp housing 50,000 people displaced by the earthquake. Ms. Sant Hubert and her husband Fritznell, who is unable to find work, have been living in the camp with their four daughters since the quake.By late June 2010 in Haiti, emergency responses had shifted to long-term recovery efforts in response to the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that hit the country on 12 January. The quake’s epicentre was only 17 kilometres from Port-au-Prince, the capital, more than 222,500 people were killed and 2.1 million people were displaced. Some 30 per cent of the country’s population was affected by the disaster, and 1.5 million people are currently living in makeshift settlement sites, most of them in Port-au-Prince, and over 661,000 have migrated out the devastated region.
©UNICEF/NYHQ2010-1437/Susan Markisz
