Two years after a devastating earthquake, Haiti is struggling to rebuild its ravaged buildings and hundreds of thousands of victims remain homeless.(Full story, with photos, here). The article doesn't get into much detail on why reconstruction has been slow, but corruption and incompetence probably play a large role--that is, after all, why the country was in such a bad state prior to the earthquake.
The 7.0 magnitude quake on January 12, 2010, lasted only a few seconds but killed around 300,000 people and left more than 1.5million without homes.
Since then, however, reconstruction has been painfully slow, with squalid tent camps housing more than a half a million people in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.
It bears a strong reminder that, after a disaster, you shouldn't expect help from the government.
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