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One year after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook Haiti, killing more than 230,000 people, at least another million people are still living in tents, and only 5 percent of the rubble in Port-au-Prince has been cleared. A cholera epidemic claimed the lives of at least another 3,000 people. Tent villages have even been bombed with teargas during recent political protests.
There is no shortage of NGOs working on the island nation, but the situation there remain dire—as a recent Oxfam report points out—and the recovery has "barely begun." Here's a roundup of things you can do to pitch in with the ongoing relief effort.
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