Getting homesick: More than nin months after earthquake, Haitians just want to go home

Submitted on October 27, 2010
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Barbara J. Fraser | Catholic News Service
People went about their daily activities in the largest tent city of Haitian earthquake survivors on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 22. The Petionville Club was hosting more than 44,000 people left homeless after the Jan. 12 earthquake.
People went about their daily activities in the largest tent city of Haitian earthquake survivors on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 22. The Petionville Club was hosting more than 44,000 people left homeless after the Jan. 12 earthquake.
Paul Jeffrey/Catholic News Service
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A tent on a main drag through one of the city's largest tent camps is an ideal spot for Jocelin Benjanor's cell-phone-recharging business. Various phones rest, plugged in, on a table, and power cords hang from an outlet at the top of the tent. As a bonus, there are benches and a television set in the rear, where women stop by in the afternoon to watch "The Devil Knows Best," a popular Spanish-language soap opera.

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