Homeless Haiti Quake Victims Get Tarps, Want Tents (ap)

A child stands among makeshift tents at a refugee camp in the Cite Soleil neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Friday Feb. 13, 2010. Most of the estimated 1.2 million people that the U.N. says are living in temporary camps across Haiti dwell in simple structures made of bed sheets and plastic sheeting. Officials warn that more permanent shelter must be had before the rainy season begins within weeks. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP – Ask any of the hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims living outdoors in Haiti’s shattered capital and you’re apt to get the same plea: “Give us a tent.”

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