Slideshow: Go behind the scenes with America Tonight in Haiti

Port-au-Prince’s 3 million residents account for roughly a third of Haiti’s overall population. After a devastating earthquake in January 2010 killed 300,000 people and left nearly 2 million Haitians homeless, the country in the West Indies once known as “the pearl of the Antilles” is struggling to rebuild. Electricity is sporadic at best. Seen here at night, the dark foothills in the foreground deceptively hide thousands of homes.

Some 300,000 people displaced by the earthquake still live in squalid camps nestled throughout Port-au-Prince. Right after the earthquake, the international community pledged $5.4 billion to help Haitians left homeless and rebuild a nation that suffered more than $7.8 billion in damages and losses.

Special correspondent Soledad O’Brien recently traveled to Haiti on a reporting trip for America Tonight. Here, O’Brien travels through the capital of Port-au-Prince to see firsthand what happened to the money donated to help rebuild the country.

O’Brien walks through one of the many winding dirt paths that link neighborhoods around Port-au-Prince. In the middle-class suburb of Bourdon, O’Brien encounters a pig – a familiar sight and a prized commodity – in a neighborhood that was badly hit by the earthquake.

O’Brien reports on the conditions of earthquake victims living in Camp Corail, far from their hometown of Port-au-Prince. America Tonight’s team followed up with families who were promised permanent homes but still live in temporary shelters. Here, Jimmy Raphael, (in stripes), explains to O’Brien and her crew what life has been like in this dusty, isolated camp two hours from the capital.

O’Brien reports on Camp Corail, a camp established by international aid organizations in 2010 to provide temporary shelters for 6,000 homeless victims. The camp’s population has swelled to 60,000. Here, O’Brien stands on the main dirt road at the foothills of some of Haiti’s most barren mountains. America Tonight

O’Brien visits a temporary home built at Camp Corail to report on the conditions displaced people have faced since the 2010 earthquake. This is “home” for Jimmy Raphael’s family -- a one-room temporary shelter made out of plywood and corrugated roof.

Photographer Alfredo de Lara turns his camera toward a brighter side of life at Camp Corail: two girls sitting on the steps of a temporary shelter.

O’Brien takes a break from reporting at Camp Corail to show two little girls their picture on her phone.

Junghun Park, America Tonight’s director of photography, films a boy in Camp Corail. In a camp where children have little to do, our team’s presence attracted kids everywhere we went.

A five-minute drive from Corail you’ll find row after row of partially finished buildings that were supposed to help with Haiti’s housing crisis. Even though this neighborhood has sidewalks and paved roads – a rare luxury in Haitian construction -- between the brightly colored apartment buildings, it’s a ghost town. The government stopped construction.