Just a few photos Georges was able to send from Haiti...
These courageous and resilient young women are NURSING SCHOOL students at the Université de Notre Dame d'Haiti (UNDH). Their classrooms were destroyed but they are determined to finish their education any way possible. Classes like this -- outdoors with no shelter -- have been resuming at different universities around Port-au-Prince in recent weeks; they are setting up classes wherever they can manage to find space. Some schools that have (relatively) intact buildings are sharing space with other schools, for example the younger children attend school in the mornings and the older ones use the space in the afternoons.
You can't even call this a tent city since they have no tents; blankets and sheets tied to sticks in a banana grove don't even qualify as shelter. Imagine this now that the rainy season is already beginning. Where the hell is the Red Cross and other aid organizations? How are they not shipping tents in there by the boat-load?
Georges had a very surreal experience on his first full day in Haiti. This is him sitting in a salvaged arm-chair in the "garden" (note the lack of grass) of his colleague's family members. This colleague is Haitian but had been living and working here in Paris, and he has decided to return to take up some sort of leadership role and to be with his family (mother and two brothers). The house isn't quite safe to sleep in, so they have pitched tents in the "garden" (you can see them in the upper right corner) and then they have their few remaining possessions outside as well, some of them in a big pile under the tarp you can just see on the left. Georges was there to meet them and have a cup of coffee. He said he was very aware of how odd it was for him to be sitting there in his jacket and tie, and look how they're living. And in some ways these people are luckier than some. The colleague pitched his own tent right there with them, too.
He'll have more photos to share when he gets back; the images are large and his WiFi connection is slow and temperamental so he didn't want to overload it by trying to send too many pictures.
