Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
A scene shows a tightly packed camp on a hillside in Port Au Prince, Haiti on the 17th January 2013. Three years ago a powerful earthquake claimed the lives of over 200,000 people and displaced thousands more - over 350,000 are still living in camps like this despite a multi billion pound aid effort.
Friday, January 25, 2013
PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
Crowds gather to see the arrival of a sacred log that is being met by thePresident in a Voodoo ceremony in downtown Port Au Prince, Haiti on the 14th January 2013. The log is being carried by the people of Haiti across the country to symbolise the need for Haitians' to join together in the struggle they face in rebuilding their country. The log carrying coincides with the third anniversary of the earthquake that rocked Haiti in which over 200,000 people died and thousands more were displaced.
PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
A man plays with his daughter and baby outside their tent in a camp for people displaced by the earthquake in 2010 in Port Au Prince, Haiti on 13th January 2013. As Haiti marks the 3rd anniversary of the apocalyptic 12th January 2010 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people, international effort to rebuild the western hemisphere's poorest nation has been a disaster in itself. It took far too long to clear the rubble; some 350,000 displaced Haitians still live in squalid camp tents; UN peacekeepers are allegedly responsible for a cholera epidemic, and unemployment continues to top 70%.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Families displaced by recent fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese Government soldiers try to cook their daily meal in the rain at Don Bosco Orphanage in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo on the 27th November 2012. Rebels widely believed to be backed by Rwanda claimed control of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo took control of Goma after fierce fighting, forcing thousands of people, already displaced by years of war to flee their homes again.








