Living in the makeshift camps

through once-open fields Laraque and Decaens arrived in June to coach the Haitian National Police and increase the level of security for the reported 700,000 people living in the makeshift camps — the "tent cities."

Laraque’s parents grew up in Haiti and he remembers visiting the country as a child."So for me, it felt a bit personal," he said in a telephone interview. "It was kind of a duty to come down and help."

When he first arrived, Laraque said he was shocked at happy the seemingly infinite number of muddied canvas tents and tarps stretching through once-open fields.