Michael Henninger

Editorial: Essays: Haiti

Almost a month later, the earthquake's devastation can still be seen all around Port-au-Prince. Here, a group of Haitians walk past a leveled structure in Petionville on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010.
  
A baby girl at the BRESMA Orphanage cries after snack bags handed out to other orphans run out before she can get one on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010.
  
A nanny sits in a rocking chair holding two children at the BRESMA Orphanage in Delmas, a neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010.
     
  
Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne patrol Port-au-Prince's Cité Soleil slum on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010.
  
Staff, volunteers, and patients at the Hopital Albert Schweitzer in Dechapelles bow their heads for a prayer during a memorial service in honor of the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on Wednesday, January 12, 2011.
  
Mitha Saint-Me, a woman from Port-au-Prince who lost both her legs in the Hatian earthquake, sits with her daughter Magdala Leonee, 6, at the Hanger Clinic in Dechapelles Haiti on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Saint-Me recieved two prosthetic legs from the clinic and can now walk. She has four children.
     
  
Mitha Saint-Me, a woman from Port-au-Prince who lost both her legs in the Hatian earthquake breaks down while speaking at a memorial service for the one-year anniversary of the earthquake at the Hanger Clinic in Dechapelles, Haiti, on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011.
  
Four paper-mache legs hang along the examination rooms at the Hanger Clinic, a prosthetics clinic in Dechapelles, Haiti, on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011.
  
Dieusila Adiolen holds her 6-month-old daughter Richielle Edore, in the pediatric cholera clinic in the Hopital Albert Schweitzer on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. Richielle contracted cholera after a visitor died of the disease in her home in late December.
     
  
A group of teens can be seen through the concrete block wall surrounding Camp Saint Therese, a tent city in the Petionville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011.
  
A woman sits inside her tent at Camp Saint Therese, a tent city in the Petionville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011.
  
Jean Obertin Gusten, top, and Dialus Dorlis saw a log in the village of Bastien, Haiti, on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. The pair will buy individual trees from owners, saw them into useable wood planks, and sell them for furniture, houses, and occasionally, one of Marlus Saint-Jean's caskets.