The View from Gabion

February 15, 2010 Gabion was transformed, early on after the earthquake, from a soccer stadium to an IDP (internally displaced peoples) camp. When I think of “camps,” images of miles and miles of refugees, dirt, makeshift housing, and generally unsanitary conditions come to mind. I’ve been conditioned to associate camps with terrible living conditions. Gabion […]

As the quake hits the countryside…

February 3, 2010 “My name is Maxime Myrtil,” the young man penned delicately in my yellow notepad. “24 years old.” Halfway through his last year of high school, Maxime had been studying in Port-au-Prince when the earthquake struck. Fortunately, he told me, he escaped his crumbling school building unharmed and was able to make the […]