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| January 22, 2010 |
Faces of Haiti
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 [ Also see earlier entries: 1, 2, 3]. (46 photos total)

A. 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. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) #

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. (PAUL JEFFREY/AFP/Getty Images/ACT ALLIANCE) #

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. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Chelsea Kennedy) #

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. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) #

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. (REUTERS/St Felix Evens) #

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. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) #

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. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) #
More links and information
Haiti earthquake - Boston Globe coverage
2010 Haiti earthquake - Wikipedia entry
How to help - Boston.com page with contact information






































