2010 Quake

Silvani Joseph, 48, survived the January 12, 2010, earthquake and carries debris as she and her neighbors begin to build temporary shelters in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Belair.

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$Ena Zizi gets a drink of water after being pulled alive on January 19 from the rubble of Haiti's devastating earthquake, one week after the city was reduced to ruins in a matter of seconds. The 70-year old woman was rescued from the collapsed home of the parish priest at Port-au-Prince's Roman Cathedral Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption by members of a Mexican search and rescue team, several of whom were in tears as they pulled the woman free from tons of rubble. She suffered from dehydration, a dislocated hip and a fractured leg, and was taken by helicopter to the U.S.S. Bataan for treatment. She told an interviewer she stayed alive by talking with God.$

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A woman carries a bundle past a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was devastated by a January 12 earthquake.

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After a Port-au-Prince, Haiti, radio station on January 19 mistakenly announced the the Canadian embassy was giving away visas, hundreds of survivors of the January 12 earthquake flocked to the embassy where they were confronted by Canadian soldiers.

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With water, gas, and just about everything else in short supply, survivors of the January 12 earthquake line up for gas in a Port-au-Prince, Haiti, gasoline station.

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Children practice capoeira on January 24 in a camp for homeless families in the Belair section of Port-au-Prince. The program, run by Viva Rio, a Brazilian nongovernmental organization, is designed to help children affected by the quake recover their emotional well-being. The ACT Alliance is providing tents, water, psycho-social consultation and other support for families living here.

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$Ena Zizi is pulled alive on January 19, 2010, from the rubble of Haiti's devastating earthquake, one week after the city was reduced to ruins in a matter of seconds. The 70-year old woman was rescued from the collapsed home of the parish priest at Port-au-Prince's Roman Cathedral Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption by members of a Mexican search and rescue team, several of whom were in tears as they pulled the woman free from tons of rubble. She suffered from dehydration, a dislocated hip and a fractured leg, and was taken by helicopter to the U.S.S. Bataan for treatment. She told an interviewer she stayed alive by talking with God. Photo by Paul Jeffrey.$

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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 70-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. Oliva is a firefighter from the Mexican city of Quintana Roo.

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An Indian soldier, part of the United Nations Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), stands in a Port-au-Prince street while other soldiers secure the area behind him in a security operation following the January 12 earthquake.

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In Port-au-Prince, Don Tatlock (center), an emergency worker for Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, unloads tons of relief material brought into earthquake-ravaged Haiti from the Dominican Republic on January 25.

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United Nations troops from Argentina keep the crowd back from a distribution of emergency supplies by Caritas Internationalis and Diakonie, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the Haitian city of Leogane. Hundreds of families in the town are homeless following a January 12 earthquake, and the two church-sponsored agencies worked together to bring them help. The aid groups organized an air cargo shipment of 34 tons of relief supplies from Europe, along with basic medicines for 80,000 people. The plane wasn't allowed to land in Port-au-Prince until January 20, yet it was unloaded within hours and aid was shipped immediately hours to Leogane in United Nations trucks, where it was unloaded by residents and quickly distributed.

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A family in the Haitian village of Dabonne stands in front of the temporary shelter they built following the destruction of their home in a January 12 earthquake. They used old lumber salvaged from the ruins of their previous house.

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A woman carries a bag on her head in Dabonne, Haiti, which was devastated by a January 12 earthquake.

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U.S. military personnel load a U.S. Navy Blackhawk helicopter in Port-au-Prince on January 22 with emergency aid for the isolated town of Jacmel on Haiti's southern coast. The aid was provided by Diakonie, part of the ACT Alliance, in a joint operation with Caritas Internationalis.

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A girl evacuated from Jacmel, on Haiti's southern coast, arrives in Port-au-Prince on January 22 aboard a U.S. Navy Blackhawk helicopter and is escorted off the aircraft by a U.S. sailor. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians remain homeless and hungry in the wake of the country's devastating January 12 earthquake.

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A boy evacuated from Jacmel, on Haiti's southern coast, arrives in Port-au-Prince on January 22 aboard a U.S. Navy helicopter and is escorted off the aircraft by a U.S. sailor. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians remain homeless and hungry in the wake of the country's devastating January 12 earthquake.

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Emergency workers of Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, unroll piping in Port-au-Prince as they set up a potable water system for families left homeless by Haiti's January 12 earthquake. ACT is working with a local partner, Viva Rio, which had installed a rainwater harvesting system in a neighborhood school. Although the school was partially destroyed, the system remains, and ACT personnel set up a system to make the water stored there available to families living in a makeshift tent city in the school yard.

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A U.S. soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division on patrol in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. A January 12 earthquake quake killed more than 150,000 and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless. The U.S. military has played a dominant role in the emergency response, provoking both praise and criticism.

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A homeless earthquake survivor builds a temporary shelter in an already crowded soccer stadium in the Santa Teresa area of Petionville, Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were left homeless by the January 12 quake.

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A woman who survived Haiti's devastating January 12 earthquake carries water through a camp for homeless families in the Belair section of Port-au-Prince.

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Sentia Fabien, a 10-year old survivor of Haiti's devastating January 12 earthquake, washes laundry outside her family's tent in a displaced person's camp in the Belair section of Port-au-Prince.

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A young survivor of Haiti's devastating January 12 earthquake drinks water outside her family's tent in a displaced person's camp in the Belair section of Port-au-Prince.

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A boy living in a camp for homeless families helps unload food aid in Jacmel, a town on Haiti's southern coast that was ravaged by the January 12 earthquake.

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A survivor of the devastating January 12 earthquake carries a salvaged piece of tin roofing through the streets of Port-au-Prince.

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U.S. soldiers help clear the worst of the rubble in the devastated center of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was ravaged by a January 12 earthquake.

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Children in Port-au-Prince participate in an art program sponsored by Viva Rio, a Brazilian nongovernmental organization whose work with survivors of the January 12 earthquake is supported by the ACT Alliance.

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Rose Michel, a 10-year old survivor of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, lost both her legs when the orphanage she was living in collapsed. Here she plays with other children in the orphanage, which since shortly after the quake has been run by a team of volunteers from the Dominican-Haitian Women's Movement (MUDHA).

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A distribution of food, tents and other emergency supplies dissolved into chaos when a group of men from a neighboring village invaded a January 30 distribution organized by the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Here Haitian police officers hold the crowd back. A police woman eventually fired two shots into the air, motivating the crowd to flee. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate.

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Participants in a Port-au-Prince, Haiti, worship service for survivors of the January 12 earthquake that ravaged the Caribbean nation.

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A girl stands in the devastated center of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was ravaged by a January 12 earthquake.

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A man carries scavenged roofing material through the devastated center of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was ravaged by a January 12 earthquake.

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A woman walks through a "tent city" for homeless families set up in the Belair neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the wake of a devastating earthquake that shook the Caribbean island nation on January 12.

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Her face masked because of the smell of decomposing bodies trapped in the rubble, a woman walks in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, much of which was devastated in a January 12 earthquake.

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People move buckets of food and other emergency supplies into the Santa Teresa camp in Petionville, Haiti, on February 1. Hundreds of families left homeless by the devastating January 12 earthquake live here. The ACT Alliance sponsored this distribution of food, buckets, and hygiene kits.

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Eight-year old Caitland Dirocher carries water home in a camp for families left homeless from Haiti's January 12 earthquake. The camp, in the Martissant section of Port-au-Prince, houses hundreds of displaced families who are receiving medical care and other services from Dominican solidarity groups supported by the ACT Alliance.

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A woman fastens polls for rafters together with strips of cloth as she builds a temporary home in a spontaneous camp for quake survivors being established in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, north of the capital Port-au-Prince. Quake survivors continue to move as aftershocks continue, and reports of aid deliveries in one camp will provoke families from other camps to migrate there.

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A woman digs with a machete as she builds a temporary home in a spontaneous camp for quake survivors being established in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, north of the capital Port-au-Prince. Quake survivors continue to move as aftershocks continue, and reports of aid deliveries in one camp will provoke families from other camps to migrate there.

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A survivor of the January 12 earthquake gives her daughter a bath amidst the rubble in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Belair. Water remains in short supply following the devastating quake.

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A survivor of the January 12 earthquake sits dejectedly in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Belair.

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A survivor of the January 12 earthquake carries water in the Belair neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.

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A survivor of the January 12 earthquake brushes her daughter's teeth amidst the rubble in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Belair.

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Survivors of the January 12 earthquake remove debris from devastated houses in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Belair.

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A survivor of the January 12 earthquake carries water through temporary shelters set up in the Belair neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.

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Survivors of the January 12 earthquake fill their buckets with water from a truck in the Belair neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.

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Survivors of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti crowd together in displaced settlements in empty fields and parks throughout Port-au-Prince. While aid is beginning to flow into the ravaged Caribbean nation, the future of these families remains unclear.

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A young survivor of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti flies a kite at the edge of one of the many displaced settlements that have been established in empty fields and parks throughout Port-au-Prince. While aid is beginning to flow into the ravaged Caribbean nation, the future of these families remains unclear.

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A survivor of the January 12 earthquake carries water in the Belair neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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After a Port-au-Prince radio station on January 19 mistakenly announced the the Canadian embassy was giving away visas, hundreds of survivors of the January 12 earthquake flocked to the embassy where they were confronted by Canadian soldiers.

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A soldier from the U.S. Second Airborne Division surveys damage inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The church building was heavily damaged in the January 12, 2010, earthquake.

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Private Scott Bathory of the U.S. Second Airborne Division surveys damage inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The church building was heavily damaged in the January 12, 2010, earthquake.

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$Ena Zizi is pulled alive on January 19 from the rubble of Haiti's devastating earthquake, one week after the city was reduced to ruins in a matter of seconds. The 70-year old woman was rescued from the collapsed home of the parish priest at Port-au-Prince's Roman Cathedral Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption by members of a Mexican search and rescue team, several of whom were in tears as they pulled the woman free from tons of rubble. She suffered from dehydration, a dislocated hip and a fractured leg, and was taken by helicopter to the U.S.S. Bataan for treatment. She told an interviewer she stayed alive by talking with God.$