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Some small children use the plastic bags that contain humanitarian meals as makeshift boots at a survivor camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 21, 2010. Some have estimated there are as many as 10,000 families living in the camp just below a relief distribution point set up by the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment.

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Some small children use the plastic bags that contain humanitarian meals as makeshift boots at a survivor camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 21, 2010. Some have estimated there are as many as 10,000 families living in the camp just below a relief distribution point set up by the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment.

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