Recovery effort is slow at best; hundreds of thousands still in tents
(NEWSER) - It's been six months since a powerful earthquake rolled through Haiti, devastating lives and buildings in its path—and the landscape doesn't look much better than in the days after, reports the New York Times in an examination of the stalled recovery effort. Of the 1.5 million people displaced by the quake, a mere 28,000 are in new homes. “Everywhere I go, people ask me, ‘When will we get out of this camp?’ ” says an Oxfam spokeswoman. “And I have no answer." More»
