This morning I slept in, until 7am! I decide to work from home for the morning - mainly updating my notes and establish a workflow to link the shelter and livelihoods surveys. I have a productive morning before heading to Petionville a few miles up into the mountains. The commune is considered one of the more affluent areas of Haiti with restaurants and bars and as a result acts as a hub for international humanitarian workers. The aerial image shows the contrast between concrete-block slums on the left and the edge of Petionville on the right:
We eat some lunch at a restaurant called the view which looks over the Killick Stenio Vincent slums. The scene is quite incredible: densely packed concrete block houses all balancing on-top of each other. The buildings spread across the hill-side into the distance; the density of the buildings is incredible. There are signs of freshly reconstructed walls and tarpaulins interspersed with the odd Transitional Shelter. Apparently these structures performed relatively well during the earthquake due to the hard rock surface they were built on.
Afterwards we head further into the hills to another humanitarian worker's haven - Hotel Montana. It's quite a bizarre lifestyle being driven around in a jeep to these walled retreats throughout the Island. The hotel is quite luxurious which makes me feel a little uneasy as we witnessed many of the larger camps driving up this way. The following picture shows some of the makeshift shelters just outside the hotel.
The view from the hill is spectacular though looking out over Port-au-Prince to the ocean. I can see much of Port-au-Prince including the docks and the airport in the far distance. It is also possible to see some of the corals on the coast that were raised and exposed during the earthquake.
We eat some lunch at a restaurant called the view which looks over the Killick Stenio Vincent slums. The scene is quite incredible: densely packed concrete block houses all balancing on-top of each other. The buildings spread across the hill-side into the distance; the density of the buildings is incredible. There are signs of freshly reconstructed walls and tarpaulins interspersed with the odd Transitional Shelter. Apparently these structures performed relatively well during the earthquake due to the hard rock surface they were built on.
Afterwards we head further into the hills to another humanitarian worker's haven - Hotel Montana. It's quite a bizarre lifestyle being driven around in a jeep to these walled retreats throughout the Island. The hotel is quite luxurious which makes me feel a little uneasy as we witnessed many of the larger camps driving up this way. The following picture shows some of the makeshift shelters just outside the hotel.
The view from the hill is spectacular though looking out over Port-au-Prince to the ocean. I can see much of Port-au-Prince including the docks and the airport in the far distance. It is also possible to see some of the corals on the coast that were raised and exposed during the earthquake.
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