Thursday, June 27, 2013

Haiti

Father Rick Frechette, Regional Director of NPH Carribean, leads a funeral service inside of St. Philomena Chapel at NPH St. Damien Children's Hospital in Tabarre, Haiti,  on Thursday February 9, 2012. Remains of the nuns from the Mother Theresa convent that was destroyed during the earthquake rest in graves outside the chapel.  His group does mass burials once a week of unclaimed vicitms of disease in Haiti.

A young child sits barefoot and un-clothed on a pile of rubble along the Caribbean Ocean in Cité Soliel,  Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday February 9, 2012. The slum is one of the poorest and most dangerous in the world with people still living in metal homes and children playing on piles of garbage.  
A woman balances a 5-gallon bucket of water on her head as it spills while walking through Cité Soliel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday February 9, 2012. The slum is one of the poorest and most dangerous in the world with people still living in metal homes and children playing on piles of garbage.  
A boy rests while in the St. Philomena Hospital for Cholera care, at Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos(NPH) St. Damien Children's Hospital in Tabarre, Haiti on Thursday February 9, 2012.   
Girls smile during meal time inside the Angels of Light program, in Tabarre, Haiti on Thursday February 9, 2012. Young children stay at the facility, which provides shelter, food and schooling, when their parents are not able to support them. Parents are encouraged to visit their kids on Saturdays.  
A child peers into a hospital room  while receiving care for Cholera at NPH St. Damien Children's Hospital in Tabarre, Haiti on Sunday February 12, 2012.

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