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Year in review: Haiti


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Amid the rubble, the crucifix remains standing after the earthquake in Haiti left an estimated 200,000 people dead and an untold amount of physical damages. (Photo courtesy of Dr. S. Allen Counter)

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People wait in line to get disaster relief supplies distributed by U.S. troops in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Sgt. Junior Florestal, right, from 1st Squadron, 73rd Calvary Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, talks to a Haitian man in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. Florestal left Haiti when he was 13 years old for a better life in the United States. He’d always promised to return, but it took an earthquake to bring him back. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Women gather pots among tents made of bed sheets and sticks at a makeshift refugee camp in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Jan. 25, 2010. In the wake of the Jan. 12 earthquake, as many as 1 million people needed to find new shelter, the United Nations estimated, and there were too few tents, let alone safe buildings, to put them in. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A street vendor in Port-au-Prince is evidence of economic activity slowly returning to the devastated capital. A Massachusetts Haiti delegation led by state Rep. Marie St. Fleur made a trip to Haiti and found it hard to see results of foreign aid invested in the island nation. (Peter Koutoujian photo)

State Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry of Dorchester addresses a crowd of more than a hundred at the 15th annual Haitian Flag Raising Ceremony at Boston City Hall Plaza. The event also served as a memorial for those who died in the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti. (Ernesto Arroyo photo)

Members of the Sant Belvi Senior Center in Mattapan sing “Dear Haiti” at the 15th annual Haitian Flag Raising Ceremony at Boston City Hall Plaza. A quilt of Massachusetts residents’ relatives who died in the earthquake was displayed and the Haitian flag flew half-staff for the event. (Ernesto Arroyo photo)