The unmarried mother
The unmarried mother – just one of
conner the nation’s 1.6 million homeless – has little faith that her government or the many aid organisations that have flocked to the Caribbean since the January 12 disaster will be able to fix the long-standing woes of the western hemisphere’s poorest country.
Left homeless by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake and injured in a scuffle for charity food rations, Ms Caneus, 37, has endured months in a makeshift three-metre-square hut, surviving on handouts from relatives.
“What happens next? Nothing. We’re still here struggling,” she said. “Government officials come by every day or so. They write our names on a piece of paper – but we never see any results. I don’t expect anything to change.
