THE HOMELESS IN HAITI NEEDS URGENT HELP
Many Still Seeking Food, Shelter a Year After Haiti Quake share Many Still Seeking Food, Shelter a Year After Haiti Quake Women left homeless by last year's 7.2-magnitude earthquake create a frame for a makeshift shelter at Camp Devirel in Les Cayes, Haiti, Aug. 17, 2022. Share Print LES CAYES, HAITI — The cinderblock home with a tin roof that Erline Castel and Dieunord Ernest rented was among the more than 130,000 houses damaged or destroyed by a powerful earthquake that struck southern Haiti last year, killing more than 2,200 people. In the days after the magnitude 7.2 quake hit, they gathered sheets, tarpaulins and wood and made a shelter for themselves and their three children. More than a year after the Aug. 14, 2021, quake, they are still living in the same makeshift tent like hundreds of others, and still wondering if anyone will help them. If recent history is any guide, few people will. Duverseau Marie Cephta, whose leg was amputated when she was...