Bizav shines in Haitian earthquake relief effort
On the descent for landing in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the scene is about what you’d expect to find after violent natural forces–in this c

On the descent for landing in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the scene is about what you’d expect to find after violent natural forces–in this case, a sudden release of tectonic stress in the earth’s crust along the Caribbean and North American plates–have caused massive destruction in one of the world’s poorest nations. Entire neighborhoods here are pancaked into the dust. Gray smoke rises
in plumes from fires that have burned for days. Survivors huddle in makeshift encampments or roam the city streets searching for food, water and medicine.

Catastrophe, as it so often does, has come once again to those who can least endure it.