Quake-stricken Haiti bears scars six months on

Six months after the quake, parts of Haiti look like the disaster struck yesterday

"We are waiting," said the Mayor of Leogane, Santos Alexis, as he sat under a tree outside his earthquake-shattered residence.

Like an estimated 1.5 million people made homeless by the devastating quake that hit Haiti six months ago, the mayor is still living in the open - in his case, in a tent.Leogane, an hour's drive outside the capital Port-au-Prince, is close to the epicentre of the earthquake.

Although it has received considerable aid in the past six months - the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has built a sizeable field hospital there, for example - the place still looks, in the mayor's words, "like the earthquake hit yesterday".

Along the main street almost every sizeable concrete house is a wreck of sagging roofs, smashed pillars and crumbling concrete.

Delays have emerged in the publication - still less execution - of the government's reconstruction plan. And the government says the international donors have not come up with the money to finance it.

Some of the delays are a direct result of the earthquake - over 200,000 were killed and whole urban areas were reduced to rubble in what was one of the deadliest natural disasters ever.

Twenty-five per cent of the civil servants were killed. The UN has had to provide basic desks and computers to help the government function again.

How long more will this situation last? Is this fair?