Residents of vulnerable Haiti brace for intensifying Hurricane Matthew

Record ID: 84925

  • Title: Residents of vulnerable Haiti brace for intensifying Hurricane Matthew
  • Date: 4th October 2016
  • Summary: CITE SOLEIL, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI (OCTOBER 03, 2016) (REUTERS) PAN OF CITE SOLEIL STREET EXTERIOR OF LOCAL HOME EXTERIOR OF HOME WITH RESIDENTS RESIDENTS INSIDE HOME CHILD CLOSE TO SEA (SOUNDBITE) (Creole) LOCAL, AFOU, SAYING: "This area is called Soley 17, we are in 'Cite Brother' (children's home). This is the most vulnerable suburb in the area. Here people are going about organising things, we know that the hurricane is coming. We are communicating amongst us thanks to our own means. We will tell the people how the situation is. If things are bad then we will come together." WOMAN WALKING STRAY ANIMALS EATING RUBBISH PEOPLE WALKING ON STREET WATER FROM RAIN CHILD WALKING THROUGH PUDDLE GENERAL VIEW OF LOCAL SUBURB HOUSES VULNERABLE TO HURRICANE PEOPLE NEAR HOMES CHILDREN PLAYING SOCCER VIEW OF STREET WITH LOCALS
  • Embargoed: 19th October 2016 01:02
  • Keywords: Hurricane Matthew Haiti rain
  • Location: CITE SOLEIL, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI / INTERNET
  • City: CITE SOLEIL, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI / INTERNET
  • Country: Haiti
  • Topics: Disaster/Accidents
  • Reuters ID: LVA00152GDOAV
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Residents of Haiti's most vulnerable areas are bracing for a menacing Hurricane Matthew on Monday (October 03), with suburbs of the capital of Port au Prince expecting heavy floods and mudslides triggered by the 140 mile-per-hour (220 kph) winds.
    This is one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the Caribbean in years and many are fearing for the safety of impoverished Haiti's most vulnerable, including the residents of this children's home in the capital's largest slum of Cite Soleil.
    Local, Afou, told Reuters that the tight-knit community will band together in the aftermath of the hurricane's devastation.
    "This area is called Soley 17, we are in 'Cite Brother' (children's home). This is the most vulnerable suburb in the area. Here people are going about organising things, we know that the hurricane is coming. We are communicating amongst us thanks to our own means. We will tell the people how the situation is. If things are bad then we will come together," he said.
    According to Port au Prince Mayor Frederic Hislain, 150,000 people whose homes are in this seaside slum will be threatened by the hurricane and need to be transported to safer places.
    The storm comes at a bad time for Haiti. The poorest country in the Americas is set to hold a long-delayed presidential election on Sunday (October 09).
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