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Dehumanizing poverty in Haiti - April 22, 2003

                                               
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A broken plastic baby doll lies in a dirty puddle in Village of Peace, a seaside slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after rains flooded the neighborhood and its tin and cardboard shacks on Tuesday, April 22, 2003. The United Nations (news - web sites) is appealing to international donors for US$84 million in emergency humanitarian aid to help confront increasing poverty in Haiti, a U.N official said Monday.(AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                           

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A girl in Village of Peace, a seaside slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, holds the nearly hairless head of a plastic baby doll as she stands in the muddy alley in front of the tin shack she shares with her family on Tuesday, April 22, 2003. The United Nations (news - web sites) is appealing to international donors for US$84 million in emergency humanitarian aid to help confront increasing poverty in Haiti, a U.N official said Monday. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                                          

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A family in Village of Peace, a seaside slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, sit on rocks and cinder blocks in the muddy alley by their shacks since the two rooms they inhabit were totally flooded by recent rains on Tuesday, April 22, 2003. The United Nations (news - web sites) is appealing to international donors for US$84 million in emergency humanitarian aid to help confront increasing poverty in Haiti, a U.N official said Monday.(AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                        
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A baby in Village of Peace, a seaside slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, looks at the muddy path in front of the tin shack he shares with his family on Tuesday, April 22, 2003. The United Nations (news - web sites) is appealing to international donors for US$84 million in emergency humanitarian aid to help confront increasing poverty in Haiti, a U.N official said Monday. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                                                     

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Adama Guindo, left, director of the U.N. Development Program's Haiti office, accompanies Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, right, as they arrive at a hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for a press conference Tuesday, April 22, 2003. The United Nations (news - web sites) is appealing to international donors for US$84 million in emergency humanitarian aid to help confront increasing poverty in Haiti, Guindo said Monday. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                                                   

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A girl goes into the tin shack she shares with her family in Village of Peace, a seaside slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Tuesday, April 22, 2003. The United Nations (news - web sites) is appealing to international donors for US$84 million in emergency humanitarian aid to help confront increasing poverty in Haiti, a U.N official said Monday. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                        
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