Children playing football in a mini-stadium in the Jalousie neighborhood of Port-au-Prince Credit: Clarens SIFFROY / AFP

On a street in a suburb of Port-au-Prince, a dozen teenagers using stones for goalposts are immersed in a Sunday game of football as traffic winds around them.

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