Twelve months after an earthquake wrecked 350,000 homes and left at least 1.5 million people homeless in Haiti, 87 per cent of the survivors are still living in squalid, dangerous tented camps. Dozens of rapes are committed every day, and so much rubble is uncleared that what remains on the ground, clogging any serious reconstruction, would fill trucks which would stretch halfway round the world. All this in a country that staggeringly, hosts tourists from cruise ships. It can supply piña coladas, but not hope to its own people.
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Rebuilding efforts are still evident in Haiti as these photos testify:
Today, despite pledges of billions and the presence of thousands of aid groups and missions, the Haitians' plight is a festering global scandal.
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