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Haiti | Helping Haitians recover takes zeal—with wisdom | Jamie Dean

Nick Kozak/Sipa Press/AP

When dusk begins falling in Port-au-Prince, a surreal sight unfolds: Scores of Haitians flood into crowded streets to set up camp for the night. Some snag the coveted spots on broken medians. Others avoid wide cracks in the broken roads. All are trying to escape the threat of suddenly awaking near half-collapsed buildings that could tumble in another earthquake.

From the back of a pickup truck in Port-au-Prince, engineers Scott Powell and Zack Graham of Engineering Ministries International (EMI) wonder: How many people could actually go home?

It's an urgent question given the staggering figures of post-quake homelessness in Haiti: The UN estimates the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed more than 230,000 people also left some 1 million people homeless. As many as 800,000 of those Haitians are living outdoors—many living in squalid tent cities in the capital or in outlying areas.

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February 27, 2010, Vol. 25, No. 4

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