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(Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2010)
Social Structures Form in Haiti’s Tent Cities
As Homeless Settle in for the Long Haul, Committees Lobby for Aid and Keep Order; ‘There Is No Government but Us’

By MIRIAM JORDAN

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti— Hairdresser Yasmine Beaupin has found a new calling in the wake of the earthquake that ravaged this city: running the affairs of a teeming tent city.

The quake left nearly 1.3 million Haitians homeless, more than 750,000 of them in metropolitan Port-au-Prince, and paralyzed the government, reducing ministries to rubble. Nearly two months after the Jan. 12 tragedy, relief still hasn’t reached many needy people.

Inside the many tent cities now home to hundreds of thousands of people, a rudimentary social order is beginning to emerge as committees agitate to secure food, water and supplies in high demand from international aid organizations.

“We knew we wouldn’t receive any assistance unless we formed a committee,” says Mrs. Beaupin, 38 years old, president of the Impasse Osseille encampment, home to more than 2,000 people.

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Aid lags as evacuees strain Haitian town

International aid barely trickles into Cap-Haitien, a town that drew thousands fleeing Haiti’s ravaged capital after the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Several families who fled the devastation of Port-au-Prince in the wake of Haiti’s January 12 earthquake are now living in the community of Bleau Hills on the outskirts of Cap-Haitien. In the days after the disaster more than 400,000 people fled the capital and officials think some 50,000 are now living in and around Cap-Haitien, the nation’s second-largest city.

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