The exhibition is housed in an outdoor, temporary structure made from sea freight containers -- a reminder of the fact that the artists involved in the project come from a very poor district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital.

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The latter criterion is especially important: It makes no sense to have a repeat of last winter's food aid fiasco in which, for example, 20, 000 containers and 300 freight cars filled with food were discovered spoiling weeks after they had arrived in a Moscow rail yard.

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