Photos illustrating shelter and livelihood themes from EERI social impacts team members Harley Etienne, Rebekah Green, Scott Miles, and Rob Olshansky.
Shelter
Damage and fear of aftershocks (or another large earthquake) has displaced over 1 million Haitians from their home. This has resulted in about 315 IDP camps in Haiti sheltering 7-800,000 people.
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| Figure 1. Bourdon bioville (hillside slum) residential damage. | Figure 2. National soccer stadium IDP camp (there are many more tents outside the stadium). | |
Livelihoods
Haiti is a mix of life-in-progress and disaster recovery. Commerce is still happening, often as if nothing has happened. Of course the economic landscape has change temporarily and permanently as Haiti starts the long recovery process. Some means of livelihoods create a symbiosis; for example, salvagers remove steel from debris for selling, which simplifies debris removal for owners.
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| Figure 1. Street vendors selling while workers conduct primary first phase goal of debris removal: clearing drainage ditches. | Figure 2. A “freelance” worker salvaging steel from the Holy Trinity Primary School debris, likely to sell it on the street. | |
