Haiti’s displaced people grow increasingly frustrated | Susana Ferreira

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Haiti’s displaced people grow increasingly frustrated | Susana Ferreira

Haitians protest against conditions in camps as President Michel Martelly announces massive resettlement projectThe tarp-covered structures that lined Haiti’s streets and filled its fields and public squares in the days after the terrible earthquake in 2010 are still the biggest, most devastating reminder of the country’s slow recovery. Among these settlements is the string of camps along the grand Champs de Mars; once a swirl of public paths and gardens that stretched out before a gleaming national palace, but now home to more than 4,500 displaced families.