The 7.2-magnitude earthquake that rocked southern Haiti on Aug. 14, killing 2,200 people, struck a country already in crisis, with few legitimately elected officials and a paralyzed, unpopular and underfunded caretaker administration.
Nearly a week after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake wreaked death and devastation in southern Haiti, survivors were growing increasingly frantic over the slow trickle of relief.
US Coast Guard arrives in Port-au-Prince transporting Jovelei, an injured 6 yr old, from the Ofatma Hospital in Les Cayes after the 7.2 earthquake that hit Haiti on Saturday, Aug 14th, 2021.
A local sits amid the rumble of his home in Marceline, one of the hardest hit regions by the 7.2 earthquake in the outskirts of Les Cayes, in the South Department, Haiti.
View from inside the Paroisse Saint Famille de Toirac, where more than 20 people died when the church collapsed during a memorial service. Toirac, a remote village in the outskirts of Les Cayes, is one of the hardest hit by the 7.2 earthquake.
Sisters Lamicha,7 and Agnes Bernardin, peek out of their tent on the grounds of the Paroisse Saint Famille de Toirac, where more than 20 people died when the church collapsed during a memorial service for a 29 yr old woman. Toirac, a remote village in the outskirts of Les Cayes, was one of the hardest hit by the 7.2 earthquake.
A man urging calm in Les Cayes, Haiti, on Thursday after food supplies ran out at a makeshift camp for people affected by this month’s earthquake.
A collapsed house on the road towards Marceline, one of the hardest hit regions by the 7.2 earthquake in the outskirts of Les Cayes, in the South Department, Haiti.
Desperate residents who lost their homes and livelihoods nearly a week ago in Haiti’s earthquake are fighting over what little aid has been delivered, angered by the slow trickle of relief and the lack of government help.
Locals on the road towards Marceline, one of the hardest hit regions by the 7.2 earthquake in the outskirts of Les Cayes, in the South Department, Haiti.
Picking up food from the ground after a container spilled at a tent camp in Les Cayes
Rosedana Innocent with her cousin, Wildane Muse, at a tent camp on a soccer field in Les Cayes
Desperate residents who lost their homes and livelihoods nearly a week ago in Haiti’s earthquake are fighting over what little aid has been delivered, angered by the slow trickle of relief and the lack of government help.
People line up to get water distributed by a local charity group in Les Cayes.
A group of people fight over an envelope with cash distributed by former president Michel Martelly’s bodyguards during a visit to a local hospital in Les Cayes
A funeral procession for Delfrigny Barbier through the streets of L’Asile, a small and remote village 2 hours northeast from Les Cayes. Barbier, a 29 yr old construction worker, died when a quary collapsed on him.
14th earthquake, hold his desperate sister while his mother cries. Delfrigny, who was 29 yrs old, was buried in L’Asile, where he was a construction worker. He died when the quarry he worked in collapsed on him.
The funeral car carrying the coffin of Delfrigny Barbier, crosses a river in L’Asyle, headed to the cemetery. Delfrigny, a 29 Yr old construction worker, died when a quarry collapsed over him.
Participants in the funeral procession for Delfrigny Barbier cross the Maro river in L’Asile, a small and remote village 2 hours northeast from Les Cayes, on their way to the burial. Barbier Delfrigny, a 29 year old construction worker, died when a quary collapsed on him.
A grief stricken woman had to be carried out of the funeral grounds of Delfrigny Barbier, a 29 yr old that was killed in L’Asile during the earthquake.
“Back in the general hospital in Les Cayes, Vercia Edmond, a street vendor, anxiously stood by the bedside of her 15-year-old son, Robenson Perjuste. His leg was amputated at the thigh after he was struck by debris in their destroyed home.
Ms. Edmond’s older daughter, the family’s main breadwinner, lay in another ward with an injured spine.
Ms. Edmond said that she had tried to tell Mr. Martelly about her predicament but that his bodyguards had pushed her away. She is nonetheless pinning her hopes on him — because he, at least, visited, she said.
“I was so happy when he came,” she said. “I wanted to tell President Martelly that the kid is here, that I don’t have anything, that our stall was looted.”
“Now I don’t know what to do,” Ms. Edmond said. “I feel ignored.”
Text: Anatoly Kurmanaev
Denise Benoit washes her granddaughter’s feet (Lamicha Bernardin,7) on the grounds of the Paroisse Saint Famille de Toirac, where more than 20 people died when the church collapsed during a memorial service for a 29 yr old woman. Toirac, a remote village in the outskirts of Les Cayes, is one of the hardest hit by the 7.2 earthquake,
Unloading an aid shipment of US rice and pasta at a church in L’Asile, provided by Haitian private initiative.
People who lost their homes in the earthquake at a tent camp in Les Cayes last week
Patients injured in the earthquake at the Immaculee Conception Hospital emergency ward in downtown Les Cayes.
Patients injured in the earthquake at the Immaculee Conception Hospital emergency ward in downtown Les Cayes.
Micheline Occeus, 26, holding her baby Manuelo, 11 mo, with her children Emmanuella, 10, and Faradia, 4 with her sister Elianese Saint-Jour, 31, with her daughter Etzinca Jean-Pierre, 10. Their homes were severely damaged by the earthquake and are no in a makeshift tent at the Gabion soccer field tent camp in downtown Les Cayes.