Text Messages, Radio Warn Haitians Of Cholera Risks
As they track the disease's progress around the country, public health officials have launched a two-pronged education campaign using radio broadcasts and text messages to keep the epidemic out of the camps.
Education In The Camps
The Cahamega camp sprawls along a city street while trucks and cars rocket by on one side and planes land and take off on the other. The camp itself is a maze of tents, each separated by only a few feet.
It's as if you're walking through a field of giant mushrooms — a dirt lane serves as "main street," and people who live there set up tables to sell food, whiskey and socks. A woman sits in a chair getting her hair done.
Farther along, a truck is pumping water into a huge bladder that serves as the camp's water supply. It's 20 feet square and 6 feet high.
Several radio producers who work for the International Organization for Migration, a group affiliated with the United Nations, are visiting the camp. They file into a tiny, makeshift theater with tarps thrown over scaffolding, and a dozen benches of rough planks.
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