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Waiting in vain, the quarter of a million Haiti residents at risk from cholera who are wondering when all that help the international community promised will arrive http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1290018565
For row after interminable row, the tents stretch as far as the human eye can see at a squalid camp on the northern side of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince.
Each has a number on a board pegged into the rain-sodden ground outside and is home to a family waiting for cholera to strike them down.
The disease began its rampage an hour's drive away from this camp, called Croix de Bouquet, last month. Now nearly one thousand people in Haiti are dead and cholera has reached the capital.
UN soldiers with guns march down the lines of tents to stop rioting over deliveries of emergency medicines and water, while charity workers hand out soap in a desperate attempt to boost hygiene levels and stop the cholera in its tracks.
It is a terrifying race against time. Boys and girls with ribs clearly visible after months of hunger play in the filthy rivulets of water amid piles of rubbish.
These are the forgotten children of a forgotten country, still reeling from one of the world's worst earthquakes in January when 300,000 people were killed and a million more were made homeless in an instant.
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