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Poverty in Haiti affects many aspects of everyday life. Examples include housing, nutrition, education, healthcare, infant mortality rates and the environment. Haiti has long struggled with poor living conditions, with many Haitians moving to the capital city of Port-au-Prince in a bid to escape poverty in the more rural areas of the country. Poverty in Haiti is regarded as among the most severe in the western hemisphere. After a devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010, Haiti really was in need of some help ^[1]. The earthquake was a 7.0 earthquake that left more than 300,000 dead and hundreds of thousands injured ^[2].

Haiti ranks 59.5 in the Gini Coefficient index, with the richest 10% of Haitians receiving 47.83% of the nation's income, while the poorest 10% receive less than 0.9%. With a population of 11.4 million, 24.7 percent live in extreme poverty which is less than $1.25 a day ^[3]. To add to that, 59 percent of Haitians are having to live off of $2 or less a day ^[4]. Another statistic that stood out was that only 28% of Haiti's population had access to basic sanitation in 2015 ^[5]. With this being said, depression is a big deal in Haiti as they don't have a healthy lifestyle ^[6].