Messina 1908 – 2008 Shaken Lives

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Messina, Italy. 1908 - 2008, One hundred years after the earthquake. Concetta Albano inside his shack in Annunziata district, shows a picture of her self when she was a young lady. Her shack was built in 1909, after the earthquake. In Annunziata district the shacks don't have sanitation and when it rains the streets become rivers. People live among rats, beetles and any sort of insect. Almost all the roofs are made of asbestos sheets and among ihabitants and neighborhood, many people suffer from chronic respiratory diseases.

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