Battle for life in Haiti

HAITI: The battle for survival remain today in squares and parks in this capital and in other Haitian cities where hunger and insalubrity reign after nearly a month of the devastating earthquake.

Haiti estimates about 110,000 people are homeless because of the quake, most of them in Port au Prince where despite of the fact that some services have been re-established to live another day is still a big challenge.

Although hundreds of thousands of victims have left the city, either to go abroad or to any other department of the country, most are still living as refugees in public areas all crowded together, among them a Dominican who arrived in Haiti with the hope to recover his vision.

The 64 year old man Francois Pedro travelled to this capital three months before the telluric movement suffering a serious cataract.

He said that he would have prefered to be blind than to witness this tragedy, he commented to Prensa Latina after repeating that he could not go back to Dominican Republic because he did not have even a cent for the ticket.

The day of the quake Pedro was standing a few meters from his friend’s house when felt thanks to his good hearing sense developed during his long cataract that something was falling down behind him.

He is now living in one of the parks in Champs de Mars, sleeping on the floor, without food and with a piece of nylon tied up to four sticks and hoping to return back to his country where a wife and four children are waiting for him.

Many haitians cannot make nor raise 100 “gourdes” (2.50usd) as people have no money, but they persist in surviving because they already outlived the violent quake. Port au Prince Prensa Latina