Ten days after the massive earthquake in
Haiti, some 80,000 of the estimated 200,000 dead have been buried, two
million residents now find themselves homeless, and hundreds of
thousands of them are now trying to flee the capital city. Rescue crews
are beginning to abandon hope of finding any further survivors in the
rubble - the last person to be pulled out alive was on was rescued on
Wednesday, the 20th. Aid agencies are still ramping up their efforts -
the Red Cross alone has deployed what it calls its greatest deployment
of emergency responders in its 91-year history. Collected here are some
closer looks into recent events in Haiti, seen through the faces of the
survivors and the recently-arrived security, rescue and care workers
1.A
man touches his newborn baby, born three days ago, at the Israeli
hospital in Port-au-Prince January 20, 2010.
2.A
Peruvian peacekeeper screams as he tries to control a crowd during food
distribution for earthquake survivors at a warehouse in Port-au-Prince,
Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010.
3.A
young earthquake survivor poses as she rests inside her makeshift tent
on a street in Port-au-Prince January 19, 2010.
4.A
man grieves over the dead body of a relative who just passed away after
being rescued from the rubble January 19, 2010 in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti.
5.
U.N. peacekeeper guards food supplies to be distributed by the World
Food Program on January 17, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Aid agencies
are struggling to distribute food as quickly as possible but face major
logistical problems in doing so caused by the massive earthquake that
took place on January 12.
6.A
child waits to be medivaced by U.S. Army soldiers from the 82nd
Airborne to the hospital ship USNS Comfort on January 21, 2010 in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
7.Earthquake
survivor Hotteline Lozama, 26, smiles as she was pulled out from the
rubble by French aid group Secouristes Sans Frontieres in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010.
8.Oscar
Oliva, a member of a Mexican search and rescue team, cries with joy on
January 19, 2010 as he embraces a fellow rescuer after the group pulled
69-year old Ena Zizi from the rubble of Haiti's devastating earthquake,
exactly one week after the city was reduced to ruins in a matter of
seconds. Zizi was rescued from the collapsed home of the parish priest
at Port-au-Prince's Roman Cathedral Cathedral of Our Lady of the
Assumption.
9.Medical
professionals aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS
Comfort treat a six-year-old Haitian boy in the casualty receiving room
aboard the 1,000-bed hospital ship January 19, 2010. The boy
transferred to Comfort by helicopter from the aircraft carrier USS Carl
Vinson for treatment for an injury to his bladder and a hip fracture
during the earthquake.
10.A
survivor of the January 12 earthquake carries debris in the
Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Belair on January 19, 2010.
11.Elizabeth,
an 18-day-old infant, rests in a tent hospital after spending eight
days trapped in her home before being rescued during earthquake relief
efforts January 20, 2010 in Jacmel, Haiti.
12.Sonsonne
Semtembre, 9, center, hangs on to a tree branch as he tries to stay in
line with others to receive disaster relief at the US 82nd Airborne
Division's forward operating base in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan.
20, 2010.
13.Blood
on her visor, Pier Boutin, an orthopedic surgeon from Fairview Hospital
in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, uses a hacksaw to amputate a
woman's leg in Port Au Prince General Hospital on January 16th, 2010.
14.Tears
run down the cheeks of four-year-old Aikta as she waits for treatment
at a makeshift hospital run by B-FAST (Belgian First Aid and Support
Team) in a suburb of Port-au-Prince January 20, 2010.
15.A man eats chips taken from a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince,
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010.
16.A
man sells coal at an outdoor market in the Cite Soleil neighborhood in
Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010.
17.An injured child is pictured at a makeshift hospital in Port-au-Prince
January 16, 2010.
18.Desir
Dieudonne, 24 and her 6-year-old-son Francois Wiltens, mourn the death
of her 4-year-old child in Port-au-Prince, January 19, 2010.
19.A
Haitian man lies on the ground, injured and bloody, after he was beaten
by civilians that accused him of stealing food January 20, 2010 in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
20.U.S.
Army Private First Class Thomas of the 82nd Airborne Division, stands
among a crowd of about 2,000 people to help maintain order as they line
up for water distribution at a camp set up on a golf course in Port-au-
Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010.
21.A
boy reacts as he undergoes hand surgery in a makeshift hospital after
the earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 17, 2010.
22.Two
people look back as internally displaced Haitians line up for food
during a UN distribution in Port-au-Prince on January 18, 2010.
23.A
child evacuated from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti waits to board a bus at
O'Hare Airport January 20, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. Around 70
Haitian-Americans arrived at O'Hare this evening on a United Airlines
flight that was returning from Haiti after dropping off a shipment of
aid.
24.A
U.S. marine carries bottled water after landing in a rural area outside
Port-au-Prince January 19, 2010. U.S. Black Hawk helicopters swooped
down on Haiti's wrecked presidential palace to deploy troops and
supplies on Tuesday as a huge international relief operation to help
earthquake survivors gained momentum.
25.Boys enjoy a bath at their makeshift refugee camp in Port-au-Prince January
17, 2010.
26.A
young Haitian man cries out in pain as his mother comforts him while
being treated for a trauma wound on his arm at the Center Hospitalier
de la Renaissance January 20, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Patients
are being treated on the grounds of the hospital by Cuban and German
doctors due to fears of the building's structural integrity.
27.A
Haitian woman looks away as looters rummage through boxes pulled out of
rubble in the downtown commercial district of Port-au-Prince January
19, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
28.A
seriously wounded Haitian boy screams in pain as he is transferred to a
gurney for airlifting to the hospital ship USNS Comfort on January 21,
2010 at the central hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
29.A
Belgian emergency worker closes his eyes for a moment as he labors to
free Rosemene Josiane, 28, who had been trapped in the rubble of her
house for days after the earthquake January 15, 2010 in Port au Prince,
Haiti. A group of B-FAST (Belgian First Aid and Support Team) members
worked most of the day to free the woman, who had her legs pinned under
concrete; in the end, the emergency workers had to anesthetize her and
amputate one leg to free her.
30.A
man injured during last week's earthquake bites down on a piece of wood
as he receives medical attention at a Centre Hospitalier De La
Renaissance hospital in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010.
31.Joe
Lang, a firefighter-paramedic from Orleans, Massachusetts (left) and
Curt Audin, a Registered Nurse from Massachusetts General Hospital,
treat a head wound of a young boy in a camp for people displaced by
last week's earthquake.
32.A
woman argues with a firefighter during water distribution after
Tuesday's earthquake in Port-au-Prince, January 16, 2010.
33.A Haitian woman waits for treatment inside Port Au Prince General Hospital
on January 16th, 2010.
34.A
boy fights for food during a food distribution in front of the airport
in Port-au-Prince January 20, 2010.
35.A child victim of Haiti's earthquake poses in Port-au-Prince January 21,
2010.
36.A
woman stands in line with about 2,000 other people as U.S. Army
soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division distribute one liter of water
each at a camp set up on a golf course in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday,
Jan. 20, 2010.
37.An
orphaned child lays on the ground at the Maison des Enfants De Dieu
orphanage on January 20, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Many countries
including the United States have fast-tracked adoptions in the
aftermath of the powerful earthquake.
38.A
Haitian woman is crushed while reaching for food and water being
distributed by a relief agency in Petion Ville, Haiti on January 21st,
2010.
39.Haitian
looters lay on the floor after being detained by police in
Port-au-Prince on January 21, 2010.
40.A
young woman combs her hair as she sits in a field hospital outside the
Villa Creole Hotel in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010.
41.A
boy, bleeding from the head, grimaces after he was beaten during
looting of quake-damaged stores in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 21,
2010.
42.A Haitian woman poses outside her tent at a makeshift refugee camp in
Port-au-Prince January 19, 2010.
43.Armante
Cherisma cries in front of the body of her daughter, Fabienne, 15 years
old, killed by a policeman while looting wall hangings in the Marthely
Seiee street January 19, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
44.A
boy pours water on his head at a broken water line in a street January
20, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
45.A woman attends a mass after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 17,
2010.
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