Featured Story / Aftermath in Gonaïves by Jonathan Boulet-Groulx

"I didn't really know what to expect when I flew from Port-au-Prince to Gonaïves on the 13th of October 2008. I had spoken with Gregory, my contact at Doctors without Borders (MSF) who was in the region at the moment and he told me that the situation was terrible. But I also knew that I was arriving there a month and a half after the last hurricane, Ike, had done its terrible work of destruction on the country. A month and a half; and so a part of me wanted to believe that things were already getting better, that the government along with the many NGO's on the ground had already started something positive, if at least basic relief for the most needy. It was my first time to that region, to that city."

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