The first downpour of Haiti's rainy season came on Feb. 17, Ash Wednesday, a day when Christians ponder their mortality.
Most Haitians are Roman Catholic, but they hardly needed the reminder — not after the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 of them.
Marie Chantal, a baker who is living in a vast and squalid shantytown on the Champs de Mars park in downtown Port-au-Prince, says the rain that leaked through her makeshift tent Wednesday night made her grieve more for the two children she lost in the quake when their house collapsed.
To comfort her surviving child, 6-year-old Jean, Chantal has wrenched what she could from the wreckage, including her white lace curtains, and hung them in the shack.
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