Haiti earthquake

Governments and aid agencies around the world launched a massive relief effort after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan.12, 2010. Millions remain homeless, hundreds of thousands may be dead as countless others remain missing.

After arrival, many Haitians despair in US

Mona Pompilus, 36, with her son Klhauss, 8 (Yoon S. Byun/ Globe Staff)

A flood of Haitians are silently adrift across the United States. Many fled the horrific disaster last Jan. 12, using visitor visas to enter the US and stay with friends or relatives, hoping to stay, at least temporarily, to work and rebuild. Mona Pompilus, 36, (above) says she cannot take her son, Klhauss, 8, back because their home collapsed. (By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff)

Soaring need fuels agency’s growth in Haiti

Partners in Health, a charity born in Haiti’s denuded countryside more than two decades ago, has expanded at unparalleled speed because of the earthquake last Jan. 12, both on its familiar turf and in the cacophonous and chaotic capital city. (Boston Globe, 1/11/11)

Hope still a challenge in Haitian tent camps

The plight of 14-year-old Reginette Cinelien, an amputee who is one of more than a million Haitians still in tent camps, is emblematic of the devastated nation. (Boston Globe, 12/19/10)

At a crossroad in Haiti

Where the need to help meets the need for hope, a N.H. firm found a cause and a child took one big step. (Boston Globe, 6/26/10)

Bound for home, healed, heartsick

Four grievously injured Haitian children were flown here for treatment, but on one condition: They would go back. The feelings were bittersweet at the reunion. (Boston Globe)

Ex-trader’s vision keeps school’s mission clear

The government has ordered all public schools closed in Haiti, but Patrick Moynihan is pressing on, keeping his private Catholic boarding school open. (Boston Globe)

Aftermath strains local Haitian families

Haitians in Massachusetts and beyond are facing intense pressure to pay for medical care, food, and shelter for loved ones in Haiti. But for many local Haitians, the new demands are sorely straining families struggling to make ends meet. (Boston Globe, 2/8/10)

Trauma increases health emergency

As many as 1 in 5 Haiti earthquake victims have suffered trauma so great that they won’t be able to cope without professional help, doctors say. (AP, 2/8/10)

US commits to recover all from Haiti hotel

Crews are scouring the Hotel Montana where Britney Gengal of Rutland and 14 others were staying. The State Department said it is looking into the cases of about 4,000 Americans who are unaccounted for.

Some from US stranded in Haiti

Immigration rules are entangling many looking to return to the US. Jenny Ulysse of Boston (above), a US permanent resident, was visiting family when the earthquake hit. Ulysse lost her green card in the rubble and is stuck in Haiti for now. (Boston Globe, 2/3/10)

In Haitian villages, aid is but a rumor

While tens of thousands of people are fed daily in Haiti's teeming capital, the mammoth life-saving effort has yet to reach countless places. (Boston Globe, 2/1/10)

Much rests on Haiti elite

Though the 7.0-magnitude quake left the rich and the poor mourning the dead, the cavernous gap in incomes in Haiti is even more pronounced in the aftermath. (Globe, 1/31/10)

Infections taking hold of survivors

Two weeks after the earthquake leveled much of Port-au-Prince, a wave of new infections and injuries has emerged, further taxing the nation’s health care system. (Boston Globe, 1/27/10)

On broken streets, Haitians share night

Since the quake left hundreds of thousands of Haitians homeless, makeshift campgrounds now blanket the streets and soccer fields of Port-au-Prince after dark. (Boston Globe, 1/25/10)

Rising to meet an infinite need

With 10 hospitals and deep roots in Haiti, Boston-based Partners in Health has became one of the pillars of the worldwide response to the Jan. 12 earthquake. (Boston Globe, 1/23/10)

Haiti government ends search, rescue phase

As the Haitian government declared an end to searches for living people trapped in the rubble, yet another survivor was found, 11 days after the earthquake struck.

Out of Haiti, bearing stories of hope, loss

The earthquake sped up a Swampscott family’s adoption of a 5-year-old Haitian orphan. Since the earthquake, US government officials have been working to get the estimated 900 Haitian children in the US adoption pipeline out of Haiti. (Boston Globe, 1/22/10)
Parents of missing Mass. girl end vigil at Fla. campus

Parents of missing Mass. girl end vigil at Fla. campus

The parents of Britney Gengel, the college student from Rutland still missing in Haitii, returned to Boston on Friday, after the US State Department said the mission had shifted from rescue to recovery. The Gengels urged the US to ensure that all Americans, dead or alive, are returned to the US. (Boston Globe, 1/23/10)

N.E. doctors make do to help

The catastrophe in Haiti is a world apart from the standards of the high temples of modern medicine in Boston and other US cities where members of two disaster teams now working in a Port-au-Prince school yard usually ply their trade. (Boston Globe, 1/21/10)

Tackling a mountain of suffering

Erline Michelle held her one-week-old niece (above) as they waited to be seen at a hospital as a Mass. disaster medical team set up Monday in a schoolyard. (Boston Globe, 1/19/10)

Frustrated throngs flee Haiti's capital

Thousands of injured and homeless Haitians fled the ruined capital Sunday in a chaotic cloud of dust, squeezing onto motorcycles, piling into pickup trucks, and clinging to the roofs of dangerously crowded buses headed for the countryside. (Boston Globe, 1/18/10)

Saving lives with just the tools at hand

Haiti’s General Hospital had only a skeleton staff of volunteers, dwindling supplies, and a makeshift operating room that sprang into action Saturday for the first time since Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake. (Boston Globe, 1/17/10)

Groups struggle to get aid to Haitians

The focus fell to the daunting challenge of getting food and water to survivors as aid organizations struggled to reach survivors after Tuesday's earthquake.

A father's plea: She's dying

The injured just kept arriving at a hospital in Haiti's capital. (Boston Globe, 1/15/10)
The Globe's Maria Sacchetti from Haiti
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Devastation in Haiti

Survivors dig to help save friends, loved ones

With thousands estimated dead, rescue efforts were personal - a frantic excavation for a child, parent, or friend missing in the rubble. (Boston Globe, 1/15/10)

In capital, Haitians fending for themselves

In Port-au-Prince, people used crude tools and bare hands to dig loved ones from the rubble. (Boston Globe, 1/14/10)
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Boston opens resource center for local Haitians

The City of Boston opened an emergency response center this morning in Dorchester for local residents trying to contact relatives in earthquake ravaged Haiti. (Boston Globe, 1/14/10)

Region mobilizes to help Haiti quake victims

With the eyes of the world on Haiti, Massachusetts groups and individuals are mobilizing efforts, both large and small, to aid the victims of the disaster. (Boston Globe, 1/13/10)

Resources and Aid

City of Boston emergency resource center
150 Mount Vernon St.(near north end of Morrissey blvd.)
Hours: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. 617-284-1199

US State Department help line
for missing US citizen family members
1-888-407-4747

Haitian Consulate in Boston
Emmanuelle Dupiton, Consul General
617-266-3660

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Dispatches from Haiti

Dr. Christian Arbelaez, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is in Haiti working with Partners In Health in St. Marc to help earthquake victims. Read his posts below.

Photos from Haiti

Daily life in Haiti

Daily life in Haiti
The Big Picture

Haiti three weeks later

Haiti three weeks later

Medical aid reaches Haiti

Medical aid reaches Haiti
Audio slideshow

'They felt abandoned'

'They felt abandoned'

Haiti's devastation

Haiti's devastation

Aid arrives

Aid arrives