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Voices Of Haitian Women:Letters Of Dislpaced Camp Dwellers In Port-Au-Prince, Nicki Fraser Ms.
Voices Of Haitian Women:Letters Of Dislpaced Camp Dwellers In Port-Au-Prince, Nicki Fraser Ms.
Nicki Fraser Ms.
Introduction: On January 12, 2010, an earthquake of unprecedented scale shook the small Caribbean nation of Haiti. The epicenter of the earthquake, which measured 7.0 on the Richter scale, was approximately 25 kilometers west of Port-au-Prince. The earthquake killed an estimated 222,570 people and left 3.7 million people affected one way or the other.1In the summer of 2010, 1.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) were in camps distributed across Port-au-Prince.2That summer, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an intergovernmental organization dedicated to the humane and orderly migration, undertook a project in Haiti which involved placing suggestion boxes in IDP camps …