A woman in flooded Gonaives, Haiti, tries cleaning clothes and dishes in muddy water just days after Tropical Storm Hannah hit the country. This photo is one from a series from the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News by Miami Herald photographer Patrick Farrell.
Frantz Samedi holds his lifeless five-year-old daughter, Tamasha Jean, who died when Hurricane Ike's flood waters swept children and the elderly from their homes in the small Haitian town of Cabaret
Four-year-old Venecia Lonis was so malnourished when she first reached a clinic in Martissant that her mother was planning her funeral
Sonson Pierre, seven, huddles in mud outside his home in Gonaives
15-year-old Mardoshe Thelisma is comforted by 29-year-old Roman Jean Francois at the funeral of Mardoche's cousin Dieunana Thelisma, who was crushed to death when the three-story College La Promesse school collapsed in Petionville outside Port-au-Prince
A woman weeps as the bodies of 12 children in Cabaret are laid onto a truck bed for the morgue
Clayson Menthor, 13, holds out a small pot for some beans and rice provided by a church outside of Cabaret
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