Andrew West: My time documenting Haiti earthquake
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Balnave Ulise,7, screams out in pain as R.N. Becky Duff, volunteering from Wisconsin holds him while he has his bandage changed on his amputated leg just days after a devastating earthquake.
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Images from the Haiti earthquake that struck on January 12, 2010.
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Rescue workers, upper left, search for live victims of the Haiti earthquake in Port au Prince Sunday. T
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Hatians scavenge for food and supplies at a downtown Port au Prince store last week. It was days after a devastating earthquake rocked Haiti.
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Earthquake victims are burned in the streets of Port au Prince four days after an earthquake devastates the area. PHOTO GALLERY CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT
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Downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti Saturday 1/16/2010. The dead are starting to be burned in the streets.
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After 5 days of being crushed under an apartment building rescue workers from the Fairfax Urban Search and Rescue team along with the a rescue crew from France work to remove earthquake victim Marie France Alphonse.
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Earthquake victims are tended to at the U.N. in Port Au Prince Thursday.
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Wreckage from the earthquake in Haiti.
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Images from the Haiti earthquake that struck on January 12, 2010.
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The News-Press sent a reporter and photographer to cover the devastation from a 7.1 earthquake in Haiti. Here are images from Port-au-Prince. PHOTO GALLERY CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT
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Crushed buildings in Haiti Thursday after massive earthquake Tuesday.
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An injured 2 year old is taken out of Port Au Prince Thursday, two days after a devastating earthquake.
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an injured Rosemary Felix is taken to look for help Thursday 1/14/2010 in the aftermath of an earthquake in Haiti.
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A cholera patient is bathed in the small village of Pestel, Haiti on Friday 1/14/2010. The remote village which is at least a nine hour drive from Port au Prince is in the middle of a serious cholera outbreak. They have two doctors for 80,000 people that use a small hospital. Doctors fear that the situation will get worse. Medical supplies from Southwest Florida and other organizations including cipro were helicoptered up to the hospital Friday.
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A young cholera patient gets rehydration treatment in a tent next to a small hospital in the remote village of Pestel Haiti Driday 1/14/2010.
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Residents of Gressier and Port au Prince cheer on players after a goal is scored in a soccer game Tuesday evening in the rural hillside of Haiti. The area has seen a large influx of people from Port Au Prince after the earthquake. Gressier is about a two hour drive out of the city.
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Over a million Haitians still live in tent cities like this one in Port-au-Prince a year after a devastating earthquake. The residents live in unsanitary conditions and crime is rampant.
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Students at the Mary Austin School in St. Marc pray before a meal of rice and beans. The school and meals are funded by Shell Point resident Harold Hanson through Missionary Enterprises International. It is the only meal some children eat every day.
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Hope for Haiti among many other things is helping rebuild schools in the surrounding areas of Port au Prince. The Naples based organization is located in Les Cayes.
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Nuncia Daniel shows off her new home in the small town of Leogan, Haiti to Dan Shoemaker of Reciprocal Ministries based out of Lehigh Acres. The homes are built by Shoemaker's organization which are then bought by other aid organizations who will distribute them to those they think are in need.
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Hannah Chapman Pelle, president of Kiwanis Club Fort Myers Metro - McGregor, visited Haiti for the first time to assess the need for aid at Bon Samaritan Orphanage. "This is all so overwhelming," she said.
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A small group of Haitians pray and sing in front of the national palace in Port-au-Prince during the 1-year anniversary of the earthquake. Most Haitians mourned privately on the anniversary.
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A man prays Wendnesday January 12th, 2011 on the annivesary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti. The streets were mostly quiet on the day of the anniversary with Hatians staying at home or at area churches.
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Smith Jean Elie,15, studies by the light of his cell phone in the tent city of Henfraza in Port au Prince. "I want to be an engineer," said Elie. More than 1 million Haitians are still living in tent cities a year after the earthquake.
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Life in the tent cities is very vibrant. Some have electricity others for short time others don't. More than a million Haitians are still living in the tents a year later.
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The sun sets over crosses that mark the mass graves of the dead from the Haiti earthquake.
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A student from hillside campus of St. Francois De Sales in Carrefour, Haiti runs back to class while rural life goes on in the background. Hope For Haiti, a Naples based organization is helping rebuild the school by paying for teachers salaries and giving the director of the school a vehicle to use. The school was crushed in the earthquake, killing 100 students at three teachers.
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Dan Shoemaker, of Reciprocal Ministries International visited the new home of Nuncia Daniel in the city of Leogan Haiti. Shoemaker is trying to get aid organizations and church sponsors to purchase the homes to donate to Haitians who lost their homes in the earthquake.
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One year after the 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti children at the Bon Samaritan Orphanage in Croix des Bouquets continues to suffer. Cholera struck some of the children Tuesday. About 3,000 people have died from cholera since it struck late last year.
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Images from the Haiti earthquake that struck on January 12, 2010.
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The ruins of buildings destroyed by a devastating earthquake still remain one year later.
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Women line up for a food at the J/P HRO Ptionville Camp. More than 50,000 Haitians who lost their homes in the earthquake have lived in tents on what was once a 9-hole-golf course.
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Anderson Forterein,9, sports a dusty face after playing soccer with his buddies on a makeshift field in Titayen in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. He and his friends are displaced earthquake victims who moved out of the city and are squatting on government land.
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Young Haitians play a spirited game of marbles in a tent camp that is housing thousands of Haitians months after a devastating earthquake.
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Dust kicks up while kids play a spirited game of soccer with a basketball in the outskirts of Port au Prince called Titayen. The area is home to thousands of refugees displaced by the earthquake.
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Haitians make there way to out Port-au Prince in the early morning hours of 2010.
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Pouchon Zephirian,13, tries on a new pair of confiscated shoes that were later donated by Fort Myers Police 2/11/2010. The shoes were donated to Hope for Haiti who are spreading them out amongst earthquake victims in Haiti.
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Pouchon Zephirian,13, center, tries on a new pair of confiscated shoes that were later donated by Fort Myers Police 2/11/2010. The shoes were donated to Hope for Haiti who are spreading them out amongst earthquake victims in Haiti.
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Consfiacted shoes from Fort Myers were donated to eathquake victims in Haiti. The shoes were donated by the Fort Myers Police.
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Pouchon Zephirian,13, tries on a new pair of confiscated shoes that were later donated by Fort Myers Police 2/11/2010. The shoes were donated to Hope for Haiti who are spreading them out amongst earthquake victims in Haiti.
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Haitian students hold up confiscated shoes that were donated by Fort Myers Police Department.
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Consfiacted shoes from Fort Myers were donated to eathquake victims in Haiti. The shoes were donated by the Fort Myers Police.
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Pouchon Zephirian,13, center, tries on a new pair of confiscated shoes that were later donated by Fort Myers Police 2/11/2010. The shoes were donated to Hope for Haiti who are spreading them out amongst earthquake victims in Haiti.
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Residents of Gressier and Port au Prince gather after a soccer game Tuesday 2/9/2010 evening in the rural hillside of Haiti. The area has seen a large influx of people from Port Au Prince after the earthquake. Gressier is about a two hour drive out of the city.
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A spirited game of the national pastime of Haiti, soccer in one of the crowded tent cities of Port au Prince Wednesday 2/10/2010.
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Images one year after an earthquake devastated Haiti.
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Balnave Ulise,7, screams out in pain as R.N. Becky Duff, volunteering from Wisconsin holds him while he has his bandage changed on his amputated leg just days after a devastating earthquake.