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500K still in tents in Haiti

In this Jan. 4, 2012 photo, a youth stands among debris from tents disassembled by authorities who closed the camp occupied by people displaced by the 2010 earthquake near the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) 

Haiti 2 yrs later: 500K still in tents

Days after the earthquake killed their little girl and destroyed much of their house, Meristin Florival and his family pitched a makeshift tent on a hill in the Haitian capital and called it home. Two years later they're still there, living without drains, running water or …

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