CREATED BY: CAYLA HIGGINS, ROBERT HODGSON, CLAY MASON, AND HANNAH

KING

Haiti

Haiti

Capital= Port-au-Prince

GDP per capita= $1,300

History of Haiti

Originally inhabited by Arawakan people

December 5th, 1942 – Discovered by Christopher Columbus and claimed for Spain Called Hispaniola

1664 – France claimed western portion Renamed Saint-Domingue

January 1st,1804 – declared independence and reclaimed original name of Haiti (“Land of Mountains”)

Government of Haiti

Governmental intervention by other countries (including the U.S.)

Undergone coup d'état

Claims to be a parliamentary democracy

Current President: Michel Martelly

Current Prime Minister: Jean-Max Bellerive

JACMEL

LabadeeWealthier Haitian cities

Petionville, Haiti

Haitian life

Rural areas of Haiti found on or near mountains

Shacks found in rural Haiti

Life style of rural Haiti

Haitian children receiving donations

Haitian children who live in poverty

Haitian children waiting for food

Starving Haitians

Two different sides of Port-au-Prince

SLUMS

IN

PORT-AU-PRINCE

HAITI‘S

CAPITAL

Slums

Slums of Cite Soleil

Damage done by the earthquake

Before and after shots of the Presidential Palace

People after the earthquake

Emotions brought on by the earthquake

Piles of bodies of those killed by the earthquake

Victims killed by the earthquake

Red Cross Relief Camp

Decomposing body in the street

Relief camps set up in Haiti following the earthquake

Cholera outbreak strikes rural Haiti

People infected with cholera

Haitian children attend school while staying in relief camps