People gather in a makeshift tent city across from the ruined presidential palace in Port-au-Prince. (Angela Naus/CBC)From The CBC:
On Oct. 8, 2005, a 7.6-magnitude earthquake rocked parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, killing more than 75,000 people and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. Most of the damage occurred in the Pakistani-controlled region of Kashmir.
Almost a million tents were delivered and erected in the various emergency camps set up after the earthquake. A year later, there were still about 35,000 people living in temporary tent cities, the United Nations said.
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