Daily Life In Haiti: A Peek Into The Still-Recovering Caribbean Nation

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Backed by a docked cargo ship, a Haitian fisherman casts a net just off shore, in Port au Prince, Haiti, Friday, Feb. 3, 2006. As the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, many Haitian’s spend each day struggling just to get food. (Brennan Linsley/AP)

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A Haitian child chases another accross a footbridge over an open sewer canal on the sea at the edge of the Cite Soleil slum, in Port au Prince, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006. (Brennan Linsley/AP)

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Haitian children play with a kite in Luly, a fishermen’s village, north of Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 19, 2007. Haiti is still struggling to recover from a crippling 2004 revolt that toppled former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and threw the Caribbean nation into chaos. (Ramon Espinosa/AP)

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A Haitian woman searches for something to recover from the trash at a garbage dump in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007. Haiti, a former French colony, is one of the poorest countries in the world with a majority of people living on less than $2 per day. (Ramon Espinosa/AP)

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A charcoal vendor unloads a sack of charcoal at the port in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, July 10,2007. More than 90 percent of Haiti is deforested, in large part because most of the 8 million people use plant-based charcoal to cook. (Ariana Cubillos/AP)

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Bernadine Sifoir, 7, front, sits as she poses for pictures at Gaston Margon, a camp for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. (Dieu Nalio Chery/AP)

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Haitians carry goods at the end of the day through the Pele neighborhood of Port au Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006. (Brennan Linsley/AP)

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Mina Jean, 5, carries a basketful of avocados to sell at a market as she walks along a road in the Kenscoff Mountains to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. (Dieu Nalio Chery/AP)

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