A community health worker walks along the perimeter of the settlement, accompanied by local children.
Shanty dwelling, Cité Soleil
A typical shanty seen throughout Cité Soleil, where the floors of most dwellings are usually covered with standing water.
Canal Pollution, Cité Soleil
Canals in the area serve as sewage systems and garbage dumps, and are the one of the few resources for drinking water and bathing.
Church dance, Cité Soleil
A mother ties her son's shoes before joining a dance at the local church.
Cholera clinics, Cité Soleil
A community health nurse walks through a cholera isolation clinic on the outskirts of Cité Soleil.
Shanty dwelling, Cité Soleil
Shanties built from scavenged sheet metal and refuse are subject to flooding on a daily basis with the frequent downpours during the wet season.
Shanties, Cité Soleil
A typical shanty in Cité Soleil.
Children, Cité Soleil
Thumbs up in Cité Soleil.
United Nations, Cité Soleil
A United Nations armed guard patrols the area, though the presence of any law enforcement entity in Cité Soleil is the exception rather than the rule.
Children, Cité Soleil
A group of children tagging along with community health workers ask to be included in a photo.
Taxi, Cité Soleil
A taxi proclaiming Thank You Jesus on the road approaching Cité Soleil.
Medical clinic, Cité Soleil
A boy practices handstands under the clinic's awning.
Medical Clinic, Cité Soleil
The single room serving as both the waiting room and treatment area of the clinic.
Donations, Cité Soleil
The small staff of the clinic is frequently overwhelmed by the arrival of boxes of often unusable medical supplies containing expired medications and contaminated, used medical equipment.
Donations, Cité Soleil
Donated supplies waiting to be unpacked.
Medical tranport, Cité Soleil
A local man rides in the back a pickup truck while assisting with the transport of a critically ill clinic patient to one of the hospitals in Port au Prince. Most hospitals are gated and guarded by armed guards, and will refuse outright all patient transfers, as hospitals are already overwhelmed, overcrowded, understaffed, and undersupplied. In the absence of reliable phone service, facilities cannot be called ahead of time to arrange transfer, and patients must be driven from site to site, often lying in the bed of a pickup truck exposed to sun and rain, in hopes of being accepted somewhere. Due to poor roads and chaotic traffic, this process can often take 4-5 hours.
Bus stop, Cité Soleil
A busy street corner at the entrance to the community of Cité Soleil.
Thunderstorm, Cité Soleil
One of several daily thunder and lightening storms bears down upon a gas station at the edge of Cité Soleil.
Think Positive, Cité Soleil
A billboard proclaiming The World is Yours towers over a traffic jam on the flooded streets of Port au Prince following one of several daily thunder and lightening storms that routinely paralyze traffic for hours at a time.
