Jeremie, Haitis forgotten paradise

March 28th, 2009

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Jeremie is very clean and quite.

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A little girl on her way to school.

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Jeremie is well known for its bakeries.

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Burning wood to produce charcoal. Jeremie is one of the last places left with a lot of trees and vegetation. But Haitians continue to cut it as they have no other way to make a living to survive.

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People putting the finished charcoal into a ferry. There is no real road leading to Jeremie. The city is isolated from the rest of the country. People get transported through a ferry that goes to Port-au-Prince once a week.

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The ferry is extremely overcrowded and has only 2 lifeboats.

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