On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force

Ismael, thirty-five out side the ruins of The Tax Office. Most important government buildings have been destroyed including the Palace, Law courts, 87 percent of schools, even prisons leaving the country with no means to govern. ."I am a steel worker by trade but right now I'm here recovering the bodies from the tax office. We use plastic gloves and put them in plastic body bags. It's not a nice job, the smell almost kills me. I have to drink to get through but I know I am helping the families. The parents are waiting for me each time I pull a body out so they can identify it. They buy me my rum. I have pulled out one body today but twenty-five in total."

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Ismael, thirty-five out side the ruins of The Tax Office. Most important government buildings have been destroyed including the Palace, Law courts, 87 percent of schools, even prisons leaving the country with no means to govern. ."I am a steel worker by trade but right now I'm here recovering the bodies from the tax office. We use plastic gloves and put them in plastic body bags. It's not a nice job, the smell almost kills me. I have to drink to get through but I know I am helping the families. The parents are waiting for me each time I pull a body out so they can identify it. They buy me my rum. I have pulled out one body today but twenty-five in total."