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Haiti's poor suffer as world looks elsewhere - March 2, 2006

                           
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A Haitian girl stand in front of United Nations armored vehicles in the Cite Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, February 2, 2006.REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
                      
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A Haitian resident of Cite Soleil shows a rifle wound in the Cite Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, February 2, 2006. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
                              
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Haitian children stand in gabage outside their homes in the Cite Soleil Neighborhorhood of Port-au-Prince, February 2, 2006. REUTRES/Eduardo Munoz
                               
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A baby boy sits outside his home in the Cite Soleil Neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, February 2, 2006. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
                         
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A baby girl cries at the Mercy and Sharing Orphanage in the Cite Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, February 2, 2006. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
                                        
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Haitian-born hip-hop musician Wyclef Jean is being carry on the shoulders of a resident as the crowd follows him during a visit to Cite -Soleil a slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,Thursday,March, 2,2006. Wyclef Jean and his foundation Yele Haiti visited the project clean streets workers in Cite-Soleil as a part of one of his four projects to mark the growth of projects into the second year of the foundation.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
                   
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Haitian-born hip-hop musician Wyclef Jean, left, gives a bag to a school children as a part of his foundation Yele Haiti scholarship during a visit in Cite Soleil, a slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, March, 2, 2006. Wyclef Jean and his foundation Yele Haiti are working in Cite Soleil as a part of a project to mark the growth of the second year of his foundation. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
                            
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Haitian-born hip-hop musician Wyclef Jean,center, and children from the L'Athletique d'Haiti soccer program make a Yele Haiti foundation symbol with their hands during a visit in Cite Soleil, a slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, March, 2, 2006. Wyclef Jean and his foundation Yele Haiti are working in Cite Soleil as a part of a project to mark the growth of the second year of his foundation. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
                                       

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Haitian-born hip-hop musician Wyclef Jean carries a child on his shoulders during a visit in Cite -Soleil a slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,Thursday, March 2,2006. Wyclef Jean and his foundation Yele Haiti visited the project clean streets workers in Cite-Soleil as a part of one of his four projects to mark the growth of projects into the second year of the foundation.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
                           
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Haitian hip-hop musician Wyclef Jean (C) gestures to the crowd during a visit to the volatile neighborhood of Cite Soleil in Por-au-Prince, March 2, 2006. Wyclef, with his foundation 'Yele Haiti' is visiting four of his projects to mark the growth of those projects into the second year of the foundation. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
                        
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