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Photo Gallery Haiti's Next Big Problem

Only weeks after the country was hit by a devastating earthquake, the small island nation of Haiti is threatened by the next potential calamity. The upcoming rainy season could turn overcrowded refugee camps into hotbeds of disease. Criticism is growing that the Haitian government has not taken steps to provide more suitable emergency accommodation.
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Queuing for water: The Red Cross estimates that only half of the estimated 1.3 million people made homeless by the earthquake have managed to find refuge in some sort of emergency accommodation.

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Children play by a canal in Port-au-Prince. When the rainy season begins, the rubbish-filled canals will overflow and become health hazards.

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Local Lesly Mullin. The 42-year-old lost his two-year-old son, Gary, in the earthquake, as well as his home.

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A camp for homeless in the Champs de Mars, the city's central square, directly opposite the ruined presidential palace. About 30,000 are currently living here.

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Searching the rubble for something useful. Much of the emergency accomodation has been constructed out of destroyed buildings.

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Swedish aid worker Per Andersson speaks to locals. In Port-au-Prince the engineer is mainly working to establish supplies of clean water.

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Marnity Beberly: The 24-year-old is living in a tent with her family. She says that they still don't have enough to eat.

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