Haiti: Summer storm floods ’safe’ refugee camp (AP)

On 07.13.10, In world, by Yahoo! News: Weather News

AP – A summer storm ripped through tents and sent solar-powered streetlights crashing down at the government’s primary relocation camp for people left homeless by the January earthquake.

A boy walks in front of a structure that collapsed due to heavy rain at the Corail refugee camp, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Monday, July 12, 2010. Six months after the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated the country, the most visible early-emergency programs like massive food distributions have stopped, and there still are few tangible effects of $3.1 billion in humanitarian aid for all but a handful of those left homeless by the quake, who rely on plastic tarps for shelter. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)AP – A summer storm ripped through tents and sent solar-powered streetlights crashing down at the government’s primary relocation camp for people left homeless by the January earthquake.


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