An accidental city
Nearly seven years after the devastating earthquake, Haitians make the temporary permanent


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(Image credit: (Annie Grossinger)The name Canaan is borrowed from the Bible, meaning The Promised Land. And the area did offer hope to the thousands of Haitians who had to start from scratch after the 7.0 m)

(Image credit: (Annie Grossinger)For two years starting in 2014, photojournalist Annie Grossinger traveled to Haiti, staying in Port-au-Prince and one of the Canaan burroughs known as Jerusalem, to document)

(Image credit: (Annie Grossinger))

(Image credit: (Annie Grossinger))

(Image credit: (Annie Grossinger))

(Image credit: (Annie Grossinger))

(Image credit: (Annie Grossinger))

(Image credit: (Annie Grossinger))

(Image credit: (Annie Grossinger))

(Image credit: (Annie Grossinger)**To see more from this story and others, visit Annie Grossinger's website and Instagram.**)
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Jackie Friedman is the assistant photo editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the photojournalism program at Kent State University and now lives in New York.
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