Jalousie Port Au Prince

Jalousie Port Au Prince. View of Port au Prince and the Jalousie, an extremely poor district of Pétionville suburb of Most visitors to Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, only get to see a fleeting glimpse of Jalousie from the road, as they go past its collection of pastel-coloured shacks clinging to the side of the. Port-au-Prince, capital of the island nation of Haiti, which is often dismissed as "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere," made international headlines when a catastrophic earthquake struck it on 12 January 2010, killing over 300,000 people.

Jalousie neighborhood in the commune of PétionVille in PortauPrince, Haiti r/UrbanHell
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Jalousie neighborhood in the commune of PétionVille in PortauPrince, Haiti r/UrbanHell

Rain falls on the Jalousie neighborhood of Port-au-Prince on August 22, 2017 Jalousie is a poor neighborhood built on the hillside above Place St About 50,000 people live in these one and two room masonry houses; most lack flush toilets and all are in danger from quakes and mudslides

Jalousie slums in Pétionville, in the suburbs of Port au Prince, Haiti — Photo by YannArthus. Jalousie is situated nearby to the suburb Morne Calvaire, as well as near Pelerin About 50,000 people live in these one and two room masonry houses; most lack flush toilets and all are in danger from quakes and mudslides

Colourful houses, slum Jalousie, Petionville, PortauPrince, Ouest, Haiti Stock Photo Alamy. I am aware that these are some of the dangerous slums in Port-au-Prince and one should avoid them to be safe The Jalousie in Colours project cost a total of $1.4 million, a fairly large amount