Audio slide show: Aid finds its way to impoverished areas of Haiti
Cite Soleil, an impossibly crowded warren of tin-roof shacks, open sewers and blind alleys, is one of the poorest slums in the Americas. U.S. troops have taken on the role of delivering aid to the needy there.
Produced by Marc Martin
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