Haiti missions trip- Day 1- He brought a tent
We had a smooth trip down to Haiti. The Port-au-Prince airport terminal is still heavily damaged, with cracks through the concrete buildings rendering many of them unusable.
US helicopters are in the airport, and US troops still live in tents at the airport.
Several people wondered why one of our party carried a Coleman tent down. It turns out that it is for his niece to live in, since her home was destroyed. The tent cities are everywhere, blue and white tents amidst lots of hot and dry dust. Houses and their rubble are everywhere. Some people have an address in the tents, but don’t live there, since you can get free food and other things by doing this from the relief groups. But many people do live there, and it looks squalid.
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