Port-au-Prince, 'city of zombies'

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - "Everybody is a dead body in this country." Carlos Jean Charles calls Port-au-Prince a "city of zombies." He says, "I have nowhere to make no job, nowhere to get no food. I feel like I don't exist. "

An existence where children bathe and defecate in the street.

A life where desperation is king, as Charles describes, "We have little kids selling their bodies to make some money because they family don't have job."

A world where crime is out of control and women, like 28-year-old Natalie Amboise have stories like the one she shared with Charles. "She said 6 men took her far from here. They rape her and beat her."

A city filled with people who are starving.

"She has no food. She lives in misery," Charles says about his neighbor.

Six months after the earthquake, the misery is shared throughout a part of Haiti, including the tent city of approximately 3,800 people where Charles lives.

The family of four shares a tiny twin mattress on the dirt.

The quake claimed his house and his wife's leg.

Yet, on crutches, she opens the bed sheet that is now their front door each day to go out in search of food.

Charles says, "I go they say, 'You a man, I won't give you,' but  they will give her a little rice. Only way sometime we eat."

The help is easier to find in some tent cities, but here. Charles claims, there is none.

"I see on the TV they send a lot of money for Haiti; I don't know where the money goes," he says.

Charles blames a corrupt government for the ongoing suffering here.

But the tent cities have corruption of their own.

Some say people who live in the mountains are coming down to the tent cities because they know there are things given away for free.

Some also claim that people are renting out space in their already crowded tents in order to make a profit.

"These are people who didn't have anything destroyed didn't have anything to begin with but are trying to get in on the deals," Barbara Walker says.

Walker, who runs an orphanage outside of Port-Au-Prince, has called this country home for 25-years.

She says with no jobs, and no functioning government, despite donations, things are getting worse.

During a drive through the city she said, "Look at ahead of you.  The whole road is blocked off with tents, tents and more tents.  They're set up permanent her. They have no intention of going anywhere."

But across town, another tent city is about to go somewhere.

Hundreds living there, including Julie Clairveau, her husband, and nine children are being evicted.

An interpreter says, "She's really sad because she lost everything and now she trying to come here to live in the tent and the owner come in to ask them to kick them out."

The owner wants to build a hospital on this land.

So, the homeless become homeless again and the suffering continues.

A cycle with seemingly no end in sight.