Commentary: Helping one child at a time in Haiti 10 years after the devastation
by Mitch Albom, Los Angeles Times
Jan 16, 2020
3 minutes
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - It's been 10 years since Haiti suffered the magnitude 7.0 quake that killed over 300,000 of its people and left more than a million displaced. The scale of the destruction left the Haitian economy, its government and daily life indelibly changed.
Rubble lined the streets for years. Businesses never reopened. Temporary refuge centers became permanent housing. And it was only in October that the United Nations finally pulled out, leaving behind a checkered legacy that included accusations of violence and sexual abuse, and a cholera epidemic.
Since the U.N.'s
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