A woman stands on the porch of a home in one of the poorer neighborhoods in Cap Haitien, Haiti.
Nate Nickerson, executive director of Konbit Sante, talks with Pierre Chevannes, executive director of Justinian Hospital, outside the hospital in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. Nickerson went to the hospital to coordinate plans to take in more casualties from Port-au-Prince.
A boy asks for money as foreign visitors walk past him on a street in Cap Haitien, Haiti.
An earthquake victim sleeps in a wheelchair outside the entrance to the emergency room at the Justinian Hospital in Cap Haitien. The steady flow of earthquake victims taxed the hospital's already meager resources and, because the government in Port-au-Prince was in disarray and banks were closedafter the earthquake, the hospital staff was not getting paid.
Judy Carl of Portland talks with a nurse at the Justinian Hospital. The Konbit Sante volunteer spent the weekend helping at the hospital, whose emergency room had only a few IV saline units, ibuprofen and acetaminophen.
Elizabeth Libby, Helen Barnes, Terry Johnston and Hannah Koski walk through Terrier Rouge on Route 121, the main road through the town.
People ride atop a truck full of bananas in Cap Haitien, Haiti.
A woman lies in bed in the surgical ward of the Justinian Hospital in Cap Haitien, Haiti. The hospital received a small flow of earthquake victims daily, some brought up from Port-au-Prince by bus and others driven by family.
A man works under a bus while two women pushing wheelbarrows of goods wait to pass in Cap Haitien.
Staff at the Justinian Hospital in Cap Haitien, Haiti, carry a woman who was injured in the earthquake from the women's ward to an examination room. The Justinian Hospital got some causualties sent up from Port-au-Prince shortly after the earthquake and braced for an expected surge of earthquake-related patients.
A boy rests in the surgical unit at Justinian Hospital in Cap Haitien, Haiti on Tuesday, January 19, 2010. Despite the slow trickle of patients that have come in from Port au Prince, the hospital is near capacity with patients.
A girl stands in one of the garbage-covered roads in the Petite Anse neighborhood in Cap Haitien.
People wait to get into the emergency room at the Fort Saint Michel clinic. Konbit Sante helps support the clinic, which provides tuberculosis testing and treatment, maternity care and other services to the poor in Cap Haitien.
Terry Johnston of Jefferson hands a lunch to a boy in the border town of Dajabon in the Dominican Republic on Sunday. She had received the food on her bus trip to Cap-Haitien, in northern Haiti. Johnston has been visiting Terrier Rouge, a nearby town, since 2002 and has set up a network through her church to help the town's residents.
Mamyvon Rosannie stands with some of her children outside their home in the Petite Anse neighborhood of Cap Haitien, one of the city's poorest areas.
Woman wash laundry at the Justinian Hospital in Cap Haitien, Haiti. One of the many improvements that Konbit Sante had brought to the hospital is the drying lines in the background. Before, the laundry was laid on the ground to dry and chickens would walk over it.
Pierre-Louis, left, head surgeon of orthopedics, Julmice Jacques, center, a resident, and Macean Mario, an intern, operate on a man's leg at Justinian Hospital in Cap Haitien, Haiti. The man had arrived overnight from Port-au-Prince.
Nate Nickerson, executive director of Konbit Sante, looks over medical supplies in a store room at the Justinian Hospital on Tuesday, January 19, 2010. The store room for the supplies and staff to inventory the supplies that are donated is one way Konbit Sante provides ongoing support to the Justinian Hospital.
A member of the surgical staff at Justinian Hospital sleeps outside the operating unit early Tuesday. A bus with earthquake victims arrived at 1 a.m., and the surgical staff worked on them all night. Konbit Sante funds 26 positions at the hospital.
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