Second Place
Damon Winter
The New York Times
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"HAITI"
Three years after the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti that claimed the lives of over two hundred thousand people and left an estimated 1.5 million homeless, the majority of the $7.5 billion in aid money has been squandered. More than half was spent on aid relief: tents that are now wind-battered and shredded, water consumed, temporary sanitation exhausted. Much of the remaining funds went to costly programs that were not part of the reconstruction process: highway construction, HIV prevention, a teaching hospital outside the earthquake affected area, a massive industrial park on the other side of the country. Less than three percent has been invested in safe, permanent housing. Three years later, a stubborn cholera epidemic that was traced back to UN peacekeepers lingers on and signs of reconstruction are scarce.
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A new make-shift home was built above the Canaan camp outside Port-au-Prince overlooking several thousand other similar homes built miles from any city, services or infrastructure.
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