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Illustration Haiti Money by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times
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A client looks at herself on a mirror after having her hair combed at a street stall in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Before Haiti's devastating January 2010 earthquake dozens of independent hair stylists braided and colored hair in the capital's Iron Market, the commercial hub of downtown Port-au-Prince. The earthquake damaged the landmark Iron Market and the hairstylists moved their activities to the streets, where they resumed their businesses not long after the disaster. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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A woman gets her hair combed by hairdressers on a street in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti. After Haiti's devastating January 2010 earthquake, dozens of independent hair stylists that braided and colored hair in the capital's Iron Market moved their activities to the streets, where they resumed their businesses not long after the disaster. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Anderson Pierre, 22, lies next to a mannequin head at his hairpieces shop on a street in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Hairdressers work on the hair of a client on a street in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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A hairdresser combs a client's hair at a wooden street stall in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti. After Haiti's devastating January 2010 earthquake, dozens of independent hair stylists that braided and colored hair in the capital's Iron Market moved their activities to the streets, where they resumed their businesses not long after the disaster. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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A mannequin head is displayed at a street stall in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti. After Haiti's devastating January 2010 earthquake, dozens of independent hair stylists that braided and colored hair in the capital's Iron Market moved their activities to the streets, where they resumed their businesses not long after the disaster. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Judeline Andre, 17, works at a street stall with model heads displaying wigs and hairpieces at the landmark Iron Market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti that was damaged by the 2010 earthquake. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Hairdresser Cigarre Wanuese 28, poses for pictures as she holds a mannequin head at a hairpieces shop on a street in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Mr. Penn, with Haitian President Michel Martelly, was named ambassador-at-large for Haiti in recognition of his humanitarian work since the earthquake. "My job is to help people get the future they want to have," Mr. Penn says.
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FILE - In this April 10, 2010 file photo, U.S. actor Sean Penn carries the belongings of a person displaced by the earthquake as people are relocated from the Petion ville Golf Club to a new camp, Corail-Cesselesse, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Penn is being honored by a group of Nobel laureates for his relief work in Haiti following the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake. Penn is to receive the 2012 Peace Summit Award at the 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates at an event in Chicago in April 2012 and is expected to draw such luminaries as Poland's Lech Walesa and the Dalai Lama. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)
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Technicians install solar panels to supply power to a health center and a fish hatchery in Boucan Carre, Haiti. The panels will also provide the town with dependable electricity for the first time. (Associated Press)
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A Haitian woman cooks by candlelight in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Only a quarter of Haitians have regular access to electricity, and the scarcity touches just about every aspect of Haitian life. (Associated Press)
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People make their way down a dark street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, recently. Haitian President Michel Martelly's administration hopes to double the number of rural homes with access to power by helping villagers acquire solar-power systems. (Associated Press)
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Sean Penn (left) raises a glass with Haiti's President Michel Martelly (right) and Foreign Minister Laurent Lamothe in Port-au-Prince after Mr. Penn was named ambassador at large because of his humanitarian work since the 2010 earthquake. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier leaves the courthouse with his longtime companion, Veronique Roy (right), after attending a closed hearing in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)
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Sen. Bill Nelson, Florida Democrat, speaks Friday in front of a painting by a Haitian artist at a Miami middle school about reconstruction in Haiti since a January 2010 earthquake there. Mr. Nelson is seeking a third Senate term this fall. (Associated Press)
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Keith Lane's Haiti exhibit at Studio.
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**FILE** This image made available by the American Red Cross shows earthquake damage to a shanty town on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, following a major earthquake in Haiti, on Jan. 12, 2010. (Associated Press/American Red Cross)
