Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
The community lives in the garbage dump and relies on scavenging the dump for rotten food and salvageable materials to stay alive.
The town of Cité Soleil has the biggest garbage dumping grounds in the city of Port-au-Prince, and possibly the country of Haiti. On the edges of this massive dump, a community has grown. People erect makeshift homes and raise families among the garbage, where they scavenge for food, scrap-metal, and other recyclable items they can use to help them survive. The 2010 earthquake led to a growth in this community, and what little assistance has been given to these people has not helped them out of living in such inhuman conditions.
