Haiti's largest trash dump is also a receptacle for some of Port-au-Prince's young street kids who prowl and scavenge the dump for scrap metal in cheap Chinese sandals, and sometimes, barefeet. Armed with old rice bags and plastic 5-gallon buckets, they find scrap metal by following the bulldozer that pushes mountains beyond mountains of trash around the dump. The bulldozer turns over freshly exposed scrap metal underneath, rotting, hot fermenting trash to the kids who promptly place it in their sacks and pales while diligently avoiding being crushed by the bulldozer. If the children find enough scrap metal to sell, they can eek out a meal a day.

As major fighting in Cité Soleil has seemingly drawn to a close, aid has begun trickling in. In the above photo, a Brazilian MINUSTAH soldier stands guard while scores wait for medical supplies. Many hope the new 'calm' will last and that a new chapter for Haiti's most notorious bidonville will open.

MINUSTAH stepped up operations in the December 22, 2006 operation in Bois Neuf — with a nod from President Rene Preval — and continued large-scale operations into the first three months of 2007. The mission has essentially wrested control of the area from armed groups and the force continues to fortify their positions in the area but at a cost to Preval's reputation and legacy in the slum that helped elect him.

But many questions remain.

A fisherman applies resin to his boat in Cité Soleil.

Johnny, the President of OPEC, repairs a fishing net as the day winds down. OPEC organizes fishermen in the Cité Soleil community.

A telling sign of the situation in Cité Soleil.