New Story: The Young Mothers of Port-au-Prince

A new piece of ours has been published as a photo essay and print story (a preview available online) in the Summer 2009 issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review.

After the last of four back-to-back hurricanes pummeled Haiti in August and September 2008, mountains of garbage, mud, raw sewage, and debris were left behind, clogging the streets of Port-au-Prince. Marie Camel and her baby, Jacqueline, took refuge at a women’s shelter in Carrefour Feuilles, in the middle of Port-au-Prince, where they found some two dozen other young mothers with nowhere else to turn.

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