Saving Face: Haiti One Year Later
From my trip back to Haiti, in which I retrace my steps.
Posts Tagged ‘Haiti’
Haiti’s “Child Slaves” Shaken Loose, Not Free
What will become of a broken country’s most vulnerable citizens? What follows is a very long story about Haiti’s Restavec children-known to some as “child slaves”-surviving in post-quake Haiti.
In a series of pre/post-quake interviews with the family pictured here, several restavec children and people who work on the issue, I search for answers.
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Haiti: The Mourning After Pt. 1 (Video)
Along Haiti's Gran Rue (main street), this lady and her family, mourns the loss of her brother, who was killed in the earthquake. Her brother lies dead just out of camera view. (photo: e.parker)
The video posted here was captured on the walk back from Carrefour to Port-au-Prince. My fancy-shmancy video equipment ran out of juice just before the quake and my iPhone followed suit shortly thereafter. We were left with a thin kodak digital camera, that belonged to Vladimir. An outdated model, it had no special gadgets or doohickies. But it did allow for video recording, which helped us to show the magnitude of the suffering. It is taken precisely at day break. In Haiti, at this time, the sun rises in a rush and disappears in an instant. As you can see, it starts out very dark and the sun rises over the wreckage and exposes the tragedy.
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