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22-01-2010  Photo Collection  
Haiti earthquake: photo selection
Photos (high resolution) illustrating the situation in Haiti following the January 2010 earthquake and the ICRC's response- 18 to 21 January

See also photos since 22 January

©ICRC/M. Kokic/00485
21. 01.2010. The ICRC’s Morris Tidball-Binz and morgue staff recover four bodies from a prison in Port-au-Prince.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00459
20.01.2010. Dutch Red Cross worker Meike Groen, working for the ICRC in Haiti, helps people use the satellite phone to reassure relatives that they are alive.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00449
20.01.2010. University Hospital, Port-au-Prince. A man is lying in the hospital garden because there is no space inside. His son tries to keep him cool by fanning him with a piece of cardboard. Two other children died in the earthquake and another lost an arm.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00452
20.01.2010. University Hospital, Port-au-Prince. Canadian Red Cross volunteer doctor Paul Fillion and nurse Eleanor Rose put 12-year-old Guedline’s broken leg in plaster.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00424
19.01.2010. Port-au-Prince. Staff unload goods at the logistics centre of the International Movement of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, where relief supplies are stored before being distributed.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00420
19.01.2010. Petit-Goâve, 70 km south of Port-au-Prince. Haitian Red Cross first-aid post. An ICRC surgeon and a Haitian field officer speak to Haitian Red Cross volunteers and residents about a first-aid post in a camp for people who have lost their homes.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00437
19.01.2010. Petit-Goâve. Gladimir was born on the day of the earthquake that destroyed his home. He is living in a makeshift camp, with his mother Eveline and his father.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00427
19.01.2010. Léogâne. Houses destroyed by the earthquake.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00414
18.01.2010. Port-au-Prince. People left homeless by the earthquake queue up for aid in front of the ICRC office. The ICRC has distributed tarpaulins and buckets for carrying water.



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©ICRC/M. Kokic/00491
21. 01.2010. The four bodies recovered from a prison in Port-au-Prince are prepared for transportation to the University Hospital Morgue.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00456
20.01.2010. Port-au-Prince. An ICRC staff member, Patrice G. Brutus, has just handed the satellite phone over after dialling the number of a relative.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00462
20.01.2010. Port-au-Prince. Earthquake victims who have set up camp outside the ICRC delegation receive drinking water. The ICRC is trucking the water in and transferring it to a storage bladder for distribution.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00460
20.01.2010. Canapé Vert residents living in improvized tents. Many have lost their homes, while others are afraid to return home because of aftershocks.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00469
20.01.2010. Port-au-Prince. ICRC staff attempt to recover bodies from Port-au-Prince civilian prison.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00426
19.01.2010. Port-au-Prince. Staff load pickups with two first-aid posts and ten 50-person dressing kits for use in Petit-Goâve.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00434
19.01.2010.Petit-Goâve. Kirby and his family are living in a makeshift camp after the earthquake destroyed their home.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/00429
19.01.2010. Léogâne. Milo lived in this house with ten members of his family. His ten-year-old daughter died in the earthquake.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00423
19.01.2010 Port-au- Prince. Houses destroyed by the earthquake.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00415
18.01.2010. Haiti, Port-au-Prince, ICRC delegation. Haitian Red Cross volunteers prepare water buckets for distribution to several hundred people left homeless by the earthquake.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00494
21.01.2010. A Port-au-Prince prison. The ICRC’s Morris Tidball-Binz negotiates a quick passage of the bodies and their delivery to the University Hospital Morgue with a United Nations peacekeeper guarding the hospital.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00454
20.01.2010. The ICRC helps people living in tents in the Canape Vert district of Port-au-Prince to re-establish contact with relatives via satellite phone.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00465
20.01.2010. Earthquake victims who have set up camp outside the ICRC delegation receive drinking water. The ICRC is trucking the water in and transferring it to a storage bladder for distribution.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00445
20.01.2010. Port-au-Prince. Destruction in the Canapé Vert district of Port-au-Prince.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00416
19.01.2010. Port-au-Prince. Staff load a truck with relief supplies at the logistics base of the International Movement of the Red Cross and Red Crescent.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00436
19.01.2010. Petit-Goâve. This mother is living in a makeshift camp after the earthquake destroyed her home.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00417
19.01.2010. Léogâne, 30 km west of Port-au-Prince. Residents search through the remains of their homes for material to build makeshift shelters.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00422
19.01.2010. Port-au-Prince. Houses destroyed by the earthquake.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00413
18.01.2010. Port-au-Prince. One of the many buildings destroyed by the earthquake.


©ICRC/M. Kokic/ht-e-00412
18.01.2010. Near the border with the Dominican Republic. Members of the second ICRC rapid deployment team from Geneva meet up with a member of the ICRC’s Haiti delegation.






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