In pictures

GSBot · May 1, 2010, 1:00am

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47755000/jpg/_47755359_4556734236_594fe6cc7d_o.jpgNearly four months after an earthquake in Haiti killed as many as 230,000 people, many Port-au-Prince residents live amid filth and rubble. A team from BBC World Service’s World Have Your Say programme in Haiti asked survivors how they were getting on.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47755000/jpg/_47755360_4558715849_22125aa8b8_o.jpgMany children left orphaned in the 12 January tremor are being looked after at homes run by foreign missionaries. God’s Little Angels ministry, managed by American Dixie Bickel, took in infants…

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47755000/jpg/_47755363_4562016370_2461ae045c_o.jpgAt God’s Little Angels, a toddler takes part in a taping of the BBC World Service’s World Have Your Say programme. He seems to like what he hears.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47755000/jpg/_47755364_4558719825_0e007d0575_o.jpgHalf of Haiti’s schools were damaged in the quake, but Haitian education ministry officials have urged students to continue their studies in order to help overcome the trauma of the devastation.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47755000/jpg/_47755365_4559352258_13379cbb1a_o.jpgThe quake left one million Haitians homeless and many now live in camps like Terrain Acra in Port-au-Prince. More than 10,000 people remain there, many in flimsy shacks of scrap wood and plastic sheeting.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47755000/jpg/_47755369_4559363358_0d961c3c78_o.jpgSigns on the boys’ and girls’ toilets remind Terrain Acra residents to wash their hands, in an effort to maintain hygiene and stem the spread of disease.

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