Haiti: The Disaster Before The Earthquake

In December of 2009, less than four weeks before the powerful earthquake destroyed Port-au-Prince, the San Damiano Foundation spent 8 days filming in the capital city, with a special focus on the massive slum of Cite Soleil, where more than a quarter of a million people live in unthinkable squalor and deprivation. No running water, no electricity, no sewers...nothing but endless misery. Even after filming in dreadful slums in India, Africa and South America, Cite Soleil shocked them. Besides intense poverty, the slum is riddled with violence. Death and disease are in the air. And that was before the tragic earthquake. The film they are making is about the necessity of compassion.