Streets still ruined but baby boom offers fragile hope

HAITI’S streets still lie ruined a year after the earthquake which flattened its capital and left one million people homeless but the devastated country is experiencing a baby boom.

Much of the next generation is growing up among rubble and in makeshift camps but the small infants are a joy and sign of hope for shaken parents who survived the disaster a year ago.

Hospitals and maternity wards are packed but many newborns are threatened by disease and the recent outbreak of cholera has so far killed over 3,500 people.