Social impact themes – Shelter and livelihoods
March 4, 2010 by smiles
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Didn’t have time to post yesterday because of a dinner with Oxfam GB and UN Habitat. Alas the internet hasn’t been good enough to post more pics on Flickr either. So I decided to give a short photo post of the social impacts team’s (Harley Etienne, Rebekah Green, Scott Miles, and Rob Olshansky) two primary themes — shelter and livelihoods — in four photos.
SHELTER
Damage and fear of aftershocks (or another large earthquake) has displaced over 1 million Haitians from their home.
Bourdon bioville (hillside slum) residential damage.
This has resulted in about 315 IDP camps in Haiti sheltering 7-800,000 people.
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.
Street vendors selling while workers conduct primary first phase goal of debris removal -- clearing drainage ditches.
Some means of livelihoods create a symbiosis; for example, salvagers remove steel from debris for selling, which simplifies debris removal for owners.
A "freelance" worker salvaging steel from the Holy Trinity Primary School debris, likely to sell it on the street.
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