Haiti - Jalousie Slum In Living Color

Haiti - Jalousie Slum In Living Color

In Haiti's Jalousie slum, workers have begun painting the concrete facades a rainbow of purple, peach, lime and cream, inspired by the dazzling "cities-in-the-skies" of well-known Haitian painter Prefete Duffaut, who died last year.

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