2010 01 12  Earthquake killing over 300,000 souls

3 months after the quake we flew over the damaged area

On April 22 2010 we drove back over Haiti to tour the Earthquake damage.

One of the many tent cities that sprang up over night.  Many are still there 5 years later.

Slideshow of Port au Prince area 3 months after the Earthquake

Titanyen Memorial Gravesite outside of Port au Prince
over 300,000 people buried here

On a typical hot winters day we paid our respects to so many lost souls. The scale of the loss is hard to imagine. Thinking of how many people lie around us was hard to comprehend. We all stopped, knelt down, and said a few words. I hired a few locals as tour guides. One way to spread some money around. They used to live in PAP but lost everything in the disaster including family members.

Left over from a ceremony, many shards of purple material is scattered over the hillside.

The mass grave site for over 300,000. They did not have allot of time as there was fears of an epidemic breaking out. The turned an old gravel pit into a mass grave. In the centre of the U shaped road all the bodies where trucked in. The cross below is to the right forward.

A lone wooden cross marks the mass grave site. Other small black crosses litter the site.

PAP Catholic Cathedral

The large camp just across from the Presidential Palace

We heard it many times from people living in the camps.  Some money was getting thru but they all felt it was best if the money went to small aid groups in Haiti that have worked in Haiti for years.  Too much of the money was being used up by organizations with high overheads.