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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Shelter Kits Provide Short-term Solution for Homeless Haitians
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CNS)—A pregnant Germaine Sylace struggled to get control of the two tarps, a plastic bin of nails and 100 feet of nylon rope. Nothing was going to stop her from making sure her family would be sleeping under something better than a couple of thin bed sheets tied ...
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A volunteer distributes shelter kits in the camp for displaced Haitians.
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