Irish charity offers hope for family living in squalid slum camp
In the downtown slum camp of Place Boyer in the capital, barely clothed and dirt-covered children run between dusty tarpaulin tents, where hundreds of families live, cramped together having lost their homes during the earthquake.
One family of eight, living by the rubbish-packed roadside here, were lucky to survive the cholera outbreak. Mother Janice Simeone, 37, explained how she watched as four of her six children and her husband became violently ill with severe diahorrea and vomiting. “They were very sick, so I went to hospital with them,” she explains cuddling her youngest infant who was hospitalised for 18 days.
