GALLERY: Scenes from a slum in Haiti
In the Cite Soleil slum, the quake wasn’t as harmful as in other areas, simply because there wasn’t much to knock down. Life there remains hard, with young children, many of them naked, playing in trash strewn streets amid open sewers. (Photos by Susan Phillips)
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