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A school emerges from among the rubble in Léogane.

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Thomas Kern was born in Switzerland in 1965. Trained as a photographer in Zürich, he started working as a photojournalist in 1989. He was a founder of the Swiss photographers agency Lookat Photos in 1990. Thomas Kern has won twice a World Press Award and has been awarded several Swiss national scholarships. His work has been widely exhibited and it is represented in various collections.

A Swiss citizen born in Haiti, Katia Frei, wants to “give something back” to the devastated country after the recent earthquake. swissinfo’s Thomas Kern spent a day with the 34-year-old accountant near the epicentre in Léogane where she is building a new school.

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