7/24/2023 0 Comments Haiti earthquake survival story![]() They are building the same way they used to. “When I am going through the city and looking, the masons have the same habits. “What has been done is cosmetic,” said Leslie Voltaire, an architect and urban planner who was involved in reconstruction planning in the early days of the recovery. The razed palace still hasn’t been rebuilt, but several of the 44 public buildings that crumbled in less than a minute, including the Supreme Court, have been reconstructed, while a new $89 million Parliament complex is under way even as lawmakers flee downtown Port-au-Prince for the hills due to rising violence.Īs a disaster-prone Haiti prepares to commemorate the 10th anniversary of an unimaginable catastrophe, Haitians and the international community that pledged to help the country rebuild can point to a few signs of progress.īut a decade of political and economic aftershocks and billions of dollars in mismanaged and unaccounted-for aid have left the country struggling with its recovery, and no more ready today to withstand another massive tremor than it was the day the 7.0 magnitude quake struck. ![]() Walk through the Champ de Mars today and the displaced survivors of the quake who once called it home are long gone-replaced by ice cream vendors, novice student drivers and a new government administrative corridor in the center of the city. 12, 2010, earthquake, Haiti’s main public square was a densely crowded tent city packed with makeshift huts made from cardboard, plywood and bedsheets in the shadow of a ruined presidential palace.
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