Haiti 10 months later (42 photos)

Almost 10 months have passed since the terrible January earthquake in Haiti, which left the capital of Port-au-Prince in ruins and claimed 300,000 lives. Since then, the country's government, the UN and other humanitarian organizations have been trying to keep the remaining population, trying to get back on their feet, healthy and well-fed. In recent weeks, Haiti has experienced a cholera outbreak that has already killed 300 people. The cholera epidemic is not new to Haiti, similar outbreaks have been found in South Asia. About 1.3 million people still huddle in camps scattered in and around the capital, every day at risk of falling ill and suffering from further disasters - for example, Hurricane Thomas, which is already approaching Haiti.

1. Rooster stands on the roof of an old plane in the camp for the victims of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince on September 29. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

2. Camp for earthquake victims in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

3. An earthquake victim drinks water from a pump in a camp in the center of the capital on October 30. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

4. A patient suffering from cholera is carried to a hospital where doctors from the organization "Doctors Without Borders" provide care to people in Saint Mark on October 30. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

5. Public health workers put up posters with information about cholera in Dajabon, Dominican Republic, on the border with Haiti on October 27. (ERIKA SANTELICES/AFP/Getty Images)

6. A man suffering from cholera lies in bed at a rural hospital in L'Arcahai October 28. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

7. A young man demolishes a house with a hammer near the National Palace in the Port-au-Prince Fort Nationale area on September 20. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

8. Photographs of Leslie Voltaire of the Together We Are Strong party (left), Charles Henry Baker of the Respect party (center) and Jean Hector Anacassis of the Haitian Youth Democratic Movement party hang on the fence around the presidential palace destroyed by the earthquake in Porto au-Prince October 11th. All three are presidential candidates, whose elections will be held in Haiti on November 28. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

9. Bazelai Sai returned home after a walk with his therapists in a rehab center in Chicago. Sai is a Haitian student activist who injured his spine when a university building collapsed during the January earthquake. He was moved to Chicago for six months for rehabilitation and recently returned to Haiti with the hope of helping rebuild the country. The photo was taken on June 22. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

10. Three-year-old Abby Emil from Haiti hugs her mother Linda Maurice after an 8-month separation in Boston, Massachusetts, August 14. Linda flew to the US in December 2009 to join her husband. Due to problems with immigration documents, little Abby had to stay with her relatives in Haiti, but the January earthquake extended their separation by 8 months. (Boston Globe/Kayana Szymczak)

11. Haitians walk through the dark streets in Port-au-Prince on August 3. (Boston Globe/Essdras M Suarez)

12. A "before" photo of Haitians walking down a devastated street after the February 3 earthquake in Port-au-Prince. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

13. Photo "after", taken on September 30 - seven months after the earthquake: Haitians are walking home along the same street. According to some reports, only 2% of the blockages of 250 million cubic meters were cleared, and all because of the lack of equipment and money. Many Haitians live and work near the wreckage. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

14. A hot dog vendor works in the center of Port-au-Prince on October 8. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

15. A girl swims across a dirty canal leading to the sea in the center of Port-au-Prince on October 29. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

16. An employee of the Ministry of Health of Haiti shows a device that measures the level of chlorine in the water, which is used by victims of the earthquake.

in the camps, in Port-au-Prince on 25 October. The Haitian government is testing camps across the capital and purifying water with chlorine tablets to stop the spread of cholera, which has already killed more than 250 people. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

17. A tanker truck pours excrement from a Nepalese UN base 400 meters from the base itself on October 27. The UN has taken samples of foul-smelling waste flowing past the Nepalese peacekeeping base into the river system after persistent accusations that the excrement of a newcomer to the base caused an epidemic that has sickened more than 4,000 people. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

18. A girl goes to school in the center of Port-au-Prince on October 12. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

19. People participate in the Voodoo ritual at the beginning of the celebration of Fet Gede, go Day of the Dead, at the cemetery in Port-au-Prince on November 1. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

20. A woman participates in a voodoo ritual at the beginning of the Day of the Dead at a cemetery in Port-au-Prince on November 1. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

21. Rain pours through the roof of a hospital ward full of cholera patients in the Petit Riviera on the Artibonite River, where many believe the cholera epidemic began, October 28. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

22. A man holds the hand of his son, suffering from dehydration and diarrhea, at the Charles Colimon hospital in Petit Riviera October 28. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

23. Health workers burn medical waste behind a hospital building overflowing with cholera patients in St. Mark on October 30. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

24. Former US President Bill Clinton speaks with a Haitian while visiting a camp for earthquake victims with 55,000 residents in Port-au-Prince on October 6. The Clinton Foundation is going to provide $500,000 to continue the camp, which was organized by American actor Sean Penn. (REUTERS/Allison Shelley)

25. A boy reaches for stuffed toys drying in the sun at a November 2 earthquake camp in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

26. Girls walk through the camp for the victims of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince on October 13. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

27. Natalia Labonte, who has a 10-month-old baby, lost her husband in an earthquake. She is one of 4,000 people living in St. Teresa's camp in Petyonville. The photo was taken on August 2. (Essdras M Suarez/ Globe Staff)/ MET)

28. Adonia Batelemei watches as a nurse dresses her mother, Serette Pierre, who died of cholera, at St. Mark's hospital on October 29. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

29. Mistaki Pierre cries after the burning of the body of his mother, who died of cholera, on October 29 in Back d'Aguin. Mistaki became an orphan. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

30. The coffin of 34-year-old Jonathan Daniel, who died of cholera, is lowered into the grave on October 30. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

31. A heartbroken woman lies on the ground after the funeral of Jonathan Daniel on October 30. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

32. Two men remove debris from a building destroyed by an earthquake in Port-au-Prince on August 25. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

33. A woman with a child stands at the cathedral, destroyed by an earthquake, on November 2 in Port-au-Prince. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

34. People participate in an information event on cholera, organized by a French non-profit organization, October 30. The organization distributed first-aid kits and water filters. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

35. Young people bathe on the street in Port-au-Prince on September 22. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

36. People watch as the ship leaves the harbor, in Port-au-Prince on October 15. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

37. View of the earthquake-destroyed area of Port-au-Prince on October 1. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

38. Journalists interview a man who was detained near the prison after a riot of prisoners in the center of Port-au-Prince on 17 October. UN spokesman Jean-Francois Vezina said that the prisoners took hostage seven foreigners during a prison riot, but the hostages were soon released. As a result of the uprising, three prisoners died. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

39. People walk through the camp for the victims of the November 2 earthquake in Port-au-Prince. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

40. A child holds his lunch at a camp for the homeless in Cité Soleil on October 31. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

41. A man washes clothes in a bucket provided by the Red Cross to fight the spread of infection, near a damaged helicopter in a camp for the poor in downtown Port-au-Prince October 30. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

42. Children in the camp for the victims of the earthquake in Sit-Soleil on October 31. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)