Haiti- Three Months Later: A Tale of Two Camps: Corail-Cesselesse

Corail-Cesselesse could not be more different from the older camps. Constructed by the US Army, as anew site to move residents of the more dangerous parts of the Petionville Golf Club Camp before they could be swept away in seemingly inevitable muslides, Corail-Cesselesse was planned out with military precision. Hundreds of evenly spaced white tents lie staked out in trucked in white gravel. During the day it is blindingly hot, with no trees and no color to soak up the sun. Residents seek shelter in tents, and murmers of voices can be heard through the haze, but mostly, while the sun is high, there is silence. At night, Corail-Cesselesse is a dream- all soft colors, soft voices, and quiet children meeting up in corners or flying kites. As it darkens, football games are played, missionaries move tent to tent, and people sit outside making quiet conversation with their neighbors. If the other camps are the earth, Corail-Cesselesse is both the sun and the moon.