Haiti quake survivor's story of despair and loss

  • 12 years ago
The January 12 earthquake in Haiti made an estimated 1.5 million people homeless and left much of the Caribbean nation's capital in ruins.

What was once a private school in Port-au-Prince for wealthy Haitians is now a temporary camp for 15,000 survivors.

Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley tells the story of a young widow there. (20 Jan, 10)