Located in the worst and most polluted part of Port au Prince is a 27 square mile slum, crowded with close to a million people living in squalor conditions. The reason the area is called Cite Soleil (French for Sun City) is because it is only a city when the sun shines. Few of the buildings have roofs made of anything other than plastic and cardboard, and when it rains, the shacks are flooded with water and run off from the open sewers. Dust, stench and heat hammer the senses.
Amazingly, most of the newborns grow well because they are fed with mother's milk. This infant did not fair as well. Mom had difficulty feeding baby because of her own sicknesses.
posted by Chuck In Pensacola at 12:51 PM
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