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Refugee (IDP) Camps / Camp des réfugiés (PDI) (le français au deuxième paragraphe)

3/29/2010

 
Are you sure you want to delete this post? This action is permanent. Let me try to describe one of the IDP (internally displaced persons) camps by looking at one specifically - the Croix-des-Bouquets camp (see the 3 new photos to the right). This one is relatively small, compared to the vast ones in the bigger category -  approximately 400 families and 1500 people. This is one of the least served camps - they have had only one food distribution since the earthquake forced them here, and we were the first mobile clinic they have had (last week). The 'tents' are not really tents, but a collection of bits of cloth, flapping in the wind. Unlike some of the most visible (from the road) camps, they have received no modern tents. When it rains, as it did two nights ago, they must flee to the makeshift church for shelter - it is made of a structure of poles covered by basket weave mats which is a lot more protection than the zero protection of their cloth-covered temporary dwellings. In one of the 3 pictures (to the right), you will see the typical bed setup - no mattress, only cinder blocks covered by a thin sheet. I went back to this camp today to try to find where to take a young boy back who we had taken to Miami-Dade ER hospital on Friday. His leg had been septic and he may have lost his leg, or even his life. I hope to return him to his little orphanage tomorrow (his mom was killed in the January 12th earthquake).

Laissez-moi vous décrire un des camps PDI (personnes déplacées 'internes') par l'entremise d'un regard sur un camp particulier, soit celui de Croix-des-Bouquets (voir les 3 photos à droite). Celui-ci est relativement petit lorsqu'il est comparé aux camps gigantesques qui existent ailleurs dans la région urbaine de P-au-P. Celui-ci a environ 400 familles, et selon les estimations locales, plus ou moins 1500 habitants. Il n'a eu de distribution alimentaire qu'une fois. Notre équipe mobile de soins de santé est la première qui fait escale chez eux (la semaine dernière). Les 'tentes' ne le sont pas vraiment, elles sont plutôt des 'demeures' qui sont une collection de vieilles pièces de tissu qui flottent dans le vent. Contrairement aux camps plus visibles (de la route), ce camp n'a pas une seule tente réelle. Quand il pleut (des torrents), comme c'était le cas il y a deux nuits, ils doivent se réfugier dans un ‘bâtiment’ communautaire construit d’armure nattée suspendue sur des branches improvisées. Par ailleurs, vous verrez dans une des photos une disposition de lit assez typique, à savoir un drap étendu sur des blocs de ciment de construction. Je vais y retourner demain afin de faire rentrer un jeune garçon dont la jambe était sceptique – il risquait de perdre soit sa jambe ou sa vie et donc nous l'avions amené à l'hôpital d'urgence Miami-Dade de P-au-P où il a été opéré d'urgence.  Sa mère a été tuée dans le séisme du 12 janvier.

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