Island of lost souls

Roseline Genilus plays outside her family's one-room house near a storm-battered school bus in Gonaives Photograph: Patrick Farrell/AP

Frantz Samedi holds his lifeless 5 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 Photograph: Patrick Farrell/AP

Silfika Sulme braids the hair of a friend in a Gonaives Photograph: Patrick Farrell/AP

A woman experiencing post delivery pain moments after delivering her baby lifts herself off the table to head outside for recovery, so another woman can lay down and give birth at a clinic just outside Port-au-Prince Photograph: Patrick Farrell/AP

Flooding in Gonaives Photograph: Patrick Farrell/AP

A young boy retrieves a beaten up stroller near his family's flooded home in Gonaives days after Tropical Storm Hannah hit the country Photograph: Patrick Farrell/AP

A woman weeps as the bodies of 12 children in Cabaret are laid onto a truck bed for the morgue Photograph: Patrick Farrell/AP

Clayson Menthor, 13, holds out a small pot for some beans and rice provided by a church outside of Cabaret Photograph: Patrick Farrell/AP

A woman in flooded Gonaives tries cleaning clothes and dishes in muddy water Photograph: Patrick Farrell/AP

People walk up and down the flooded main street in Gonaives Photograph: Patrick Farrell/AP

7 year old Sonson Pierre sits in knee deep mud outside his family's flooded home in Gonaives Photograph: Patrick Farrell/AP

The lifeless body of 5 year old Tamasha Jean, the daughter of Frantz Samedi, is loaded onto a pickup truck in Cabaret Photograph: Patrick Farrell/AP

Waiting for a bed inside, pregnant women experience contractions and labor pains in the driveway of a Doctors Without Borders maternity clinic while friends and family peer through the fence in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Patrick Farrell/AP

Mardoshe Thelisma is comforted by Roman Jean Francois at the funeral of Mardoche's cousin Dieunana Thelisma, who was crushed to death when the three-storey College La Promesse school collapsed in Petionville outside Port-au-Prince Photograph: Patrick Farrell/AP