Urgent need for tent cities in Haiti
The collapse of much of Haiti's capital has a large part of the nation struggling just to find a place to sleep.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - January 25, 2010 -- The collapse of much of Haiti's capital has a large part of the nation struggling just to find a place to sleep.
As many as 1 million people - one person in nine across the entire country - need to find new shelter, the United Nations estimates, and there are too few tents, let alone safe buildings, to put them in.
As many as 1 million people - one person in nine across the entire country - need to find new shelter, the United Nations estimates, and there are too few tents, let alone safe buildings, to put them in.
That leaves about 700,000 other people living on the streets around Port-au-Prince under whatever they can salvage. In the case of Jean Anthony's family, that's a blue plastic tarpaulin for a ceiling and a faded pink sheet with a floral print border for two walls.
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