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A girl at her home in the La Lata neighborhood, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The area contains more than 200 squatter houses with up to 10 people in each. Raw sewage runs through the streets and the area often floods. More than 1 billion people around the world live in similar conditions. Oct. 6 is the U.N.-designated World Habitat Day.
Photo by Habitat for Humanity/Ezra Millstein
A girl at her home in the La Lata neighborhood, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The area contains more than 200 squatter houses with up to 10 people in each. Raw sewage runs through the streets and the area often floods. More than 1 billion people around the world live in similar conditions. Oct. 6 is the U.N.-designated World Habitat Day.
Photo by Habitat for Humanity/Ezra Millstein
