Three-quarters of the urban population of Haiti lives in slums, with Jalousie among the largest. Perched high on a hill above Pétion-Ville, one of Port-au-Prince’s most desirable neighbourhoods, its population swelled after the 2010 earthquake when people displaced by the disaster arrived from other areas. In 2013, the colourful houses were painted at a cost of $1.4m (£1m) – money many say should have been spent on sanitation, water, electricity, schools or infrastructure

A boy plays with his football on one of the few empty spaces within the slum. With up to 1,800 people crammed into each hectare, conditions are cramped, with tiny houses built on top of each other without permission or building regulations, and using poor materials

A man works out at one of the makeshift gyms inside Jalousie. He also looks after one of the water supply depots within the slum

Jean Michelle (pictured right) helps his seven-year-old daughter, Fatdjoulie, with her homework, while Catrine Telamoure, who lives with Michelle and his three children, takes a nap. Michelle works as a car park security guard and has been living in this one room with his three children and Telamoure since 2004. Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas. Not only do two out of three people live on less than $2.41 a day – the national poverty line – but Haiti suffers from extreme inequality. More than 60% of people are illiterate and only just over one quarter have access to safe water

Fatdjoulie and Jean Gous Emenco, 11, dance in an empty room under their one-bedroom house

Louismene Veya, 60, is a merchant who has been living in Jalousie for 13 years. Her husband died 10 years ago. She lives with her two children and one adopted son

A woman braids the hair of her neighbour

Two women clean rice at one of the restaurants in the slum

A woman passes one of the few open squares in Jalousie. This mural was supervised by the Haitian painter and sculptor Patrick Vilaire and inspired by one of his works

A woman carries water back to her home. Residents – including children – have to pay up to 35 cents for a five-gallon bucket, which weighs about 19kg. Getting sufficient clean water is a daily challenge, and cholera is also a major problem. In the aftermath of the earthquake, UN peacekeepers brought the disease to Haiti, and the resulting outbreak made close to 800,000 people sick and has claimed more than 10,000 lives since 2010

A woman stands in front of rubbish washed down from the mountain after rainfall the previous evening. She lives on the lower terraces of the hill so when it rains, piles of trash collect in front of her house

Churchgoers pray at Evangélique Baptiste church, one of the many places of worship in the slum community

As night falls, men play dominoes out on the street

Paul Lfanie, 40, washes clothes on her porch while her children play a board game. She is not married, is not working, and has four children – three girls and one boy. She has been living in Jalousie for about seven years

Oieumene, 18, works on her homework in the lounge that is also the main bedroom for the rest of her family

Children play at Jalousie’s main sports arena, which overlooks Port-au-Prince and the mountains surrounding the city