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3:19 pm
Fri January 11, 2013

Despite Billions In Aid, Many Haitians Still Live In Squalid Camps

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Jacqueline Syra has been living in the La Piste camp for three years. She says she has no idea when she will be able to leave.
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Construction workers overlook the hills above Port-au-Prince near Petionville, where an 18-unit complex is slated to go up this year. Despite billions of dollars in international donations for earthquake relief, only about 5,000 permanent houses have been built.
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The 16/6 project, funded by the Haitian government, was initially intended to allow the closure of six relocation camps and return nearly 5,000 families to 16 neighborhoods. But construction has been extremely slow in the three years following the devastating earthquake.
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Rose Lermonis spent months living in what she described as an "awful" camp in PeŽtionville. A rental subsidy program helped her move out, but she ended up homeless again when the money ran out. She now lives in a room owned by her sister.
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The La Piste camp in Port-au-Prince held 50,000 residents at one point. Some people have left, but the camp is still overcrowded. Residents say they have few options for work.
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Workers finish the cement walls on a multilevel building in the hills above Port-au-Prince near Petionville. They plan to finish the 18-unit housing facility in 2013.
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A man measures a completed section of a retaining wall at a construction site in the hills above Port-au-Prince near Petionville.
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Bibeta Louissaint (left) stands in her makeshift shack with her 2-year-old son, Sebastian, in the Fort National neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. This area was home to many people living in the camps around the national palace. Louissaint received a rental subsidy last year to move.
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Bibeta Louissaint (left) and Beatrice Rochelain are neighbors in the Fort National neighborhood in Port-au-Prince. Many people who received cash and subsidies to move out of the camps have returned to the area.
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A man works on his steel gate outside of his ramshackle house near Camp Corail, just north of Port-au-Prince.
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A boy stands on a pile of rocks used for the construction of new homes in the hills overlooking Camp Corail, just north of Port-au-Prince. Squatters are streaming into the area and setting up communities, with little government oversight.
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The La Piste camp in Port-au-Prince held 50,000 residents at one point. Some residents have left, but the camp is still overcrowded. Residents say they have few options for work or even hope to leave.
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This flimsy three-story house, which was rebuilt after the earthquake in January 2010, will have to be demolished to make way for an 18-unit housing project. Many homes that were rebuilt after the quake are even more dangerous than the original ones.
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Clement Belizaire directs relocation and rehabilitation in Haiti's reconstruction program.
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Rose Lermonis spent months living in what she calls an "awful" camp in Petionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince. A rental subsidy program helped her to move out temporarily.
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Originally published on Mon January 14, 2013 8:06 am

Saturday marks the third anniversary of the powerful earthquake that destroyed much of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. The quake killed roughly 200,000 people and left 1.5 million Haitians homeless.

Despite billions of dollars in international aid and pledges to help Haiti rebuild from the disaster, very little new, permanent housing has been built. And about 350,000 Haitians are still living in squalid, makeshift camps — where they face an array of health challenges.

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World
2:16 pm
Fri January 11, 2013

Juarez Priest Finds 'Hand Of God In The Midst Of Mayhem'

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Father Kevin Mullins' parish, the Comunidad Catolica de Corpus Christi near Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is located at the epicenter of the country's drug cartel war. After years of violence, murders are down and the city's shuttered shops and cafes are beginning to reopen.
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Although fearful of the violence in Juarez, Australian-born Mullins says he stayed to bear witness to the suffering in his parish.
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Originally published on Fri January 11, 2013 5:11 pm

Father Kevin Mullins steers his old Chevy pickup up a steep road to a hilltop dominated by a large statue of the virgin. She has a commanding view of this troubled corner of Christendom.

Here, the states of Texas, New Mexico and and Chihuahua, Mexico, intersect amid barren hills freckled with ocotillo plants and greasewood.

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World Cafe
1:20 pm
Fri January 11, 2013

Trey Anastasio On World Cafe

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Originally published on Mon February 4, 2013 2:33 pm

In addition to leading Phish, one of rock's most beloved jam bands, Trey Anastasio has built a successful solo career in the past 10 years with his Trey Anastasio Band.

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Arts & Culture
11:46 am
Fri January 11, 2013

Grant Green: The 'Holy Barbarian' Of St. Louis Jazz

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Originally published on Mon January 14, 2013 7:14 am

Grant Green, The Holy Barbarian, St. Louis, 1959 could be the name of a fine stage play, perhaps based on the actual circumstances of the recording. One musician on the way up, another past his moment in the limelight and one more who had his chance but never quite made it all convene on Christmas night, part of their week-long stand at the Holy Barbarian, a beatnik hangout replete with chess players and a local artist painting portraits.

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NPR Story
11:01 am
Fri January 11, 2013

Getting A Handle On Why Fingers Wrinkle

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Originally published on Fri January 11, 2013 12:03 pm

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IRA FLATOW, HOST:

Up next, Flora Lichtman is here with our Video Pick of the Week. Hi, Flora.

FLORA LICHTMAN, BYLINE: Hi, Ira.

FLATOW: Now, we've got some digital research on this one. The other - the classic definition of digits, which...

LICHTMAN: The analog digital, your fingers.

FLATOW: Your fingers. That's what it means in Latin or something, right?

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